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Bovine Juice
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Apr 14, 2008, 9:29 AM

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Hi

I'm trying to set up an RSS feed for my site but it doesn't look right. Basically I was the description to be the entire content of the article rather than a summary and my web site name to replace the yoursitename banner.

Here's the code in my globalRSS file:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>SoundsXP.com</title>
<link>$settings.publish_url$
<description>$my.siteDescription:textOnly:htmlEncoded$</description>
<pubDate>$_lastUpdated:format(www, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss)$ PST</pubDate>
<language>en-us</language>


<item>
<title>$article.title:textOnly:htmlEncoded$</title>
<link>$published.articlePage.url$
<category>$category.name:textOnly:htmlEncoded$</category>
<description>$article.content:htmlEncoded$</description>
<pubDate>$article.date:format(www, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss)$ PST</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="true">$published.articlePage.url$</guid>
</item> 
</channel>
</rss>

MikeB
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Apr 14, 2008, 2:31 PM

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Re: [Bovine Juice] Confused about RSS [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi,

Thanks for posting! Smile

I've had a look over this, and I'm curious what the error message, or issue is with this template when you use it to publish your RSS feed. Are you not getting the results you'd expect with these changes on your live RSS feed, or will it not validate, or is there another issue?

Any other details you can provide about this would be great.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Mike Briggs - Product Specialist
support@interactivetools.com

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Bovine Juice
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Apr 15, 2008, 1:10 AM

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Re: [MikeB] Confused about RSS [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi

Sorry, some of my text was stripped out of my original post. Here's what it looks like: http://www.soundsxp.com/artman2/publish/rss.xml

You'll see it has yoursite.com as the title rather than SoundsXP.com and I'd like, if possible, there to be the AM content$ for the article under each headline rather than summary$ from AM which I don't use.

Any help?

MikeB
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Apr 15, 2008, 10:33 AM

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Re: [Bovine Juice] Confused about RSS [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi,

Thanks for the email!

I've had a look at this for you here and it seems like the issues you've mentioned should both be resolved. I'm seeing that the YourSite.com isn't showing up and it does look like the content of each article is showing up for the article.

That said, for now I'd say the main issue to look at is these two lines in your template file:

<link>$settings.publish_url$
<link>$published.articlePage.url$

Neither of these have the closing </link> tag so I'd suggest adding this. From there, to test out your RSS feed if you're still getting errors, you'll want to run it through a validator like this:

http://feedvalidator.org/

This should be helpful to see what the issue is and get everything up and running with your RSS feed the way you'd expect.

I hope this helps! Smile

Cheers,
Mike Briggs - Product Specialist
support@interactivetools.com

Bovine Juice
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Apr 15, 2008, 11:35 AM

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Re: [MikeB] Confused about RSS [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi Mike

I just tried adding the "</link>" to the two sections you said and Dreamweaver rejects them and prints them as if they're text. YourSite.com is still appearing too.

MikeB
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Apr 15, 2008, 1:54 PM

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Re: [Bovine Juice] Confused about RSS [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi,

Did you try running the RSS feed through the validator I mentioned? You can take a look at this here:

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.soundsxp.com%2Fartman2%2Fpublish%2Frss.xml

You'll notice that if you scroll down the page (past the errors) the source of the file is output with the errors highlighted for you. Looking at this you can see that the <title> tag does have your appropriate domain name.

It also seems that the issues that are coming up are related to the closing </link> tags so I'd suggest giving this a quick try in a plain text editor external to Dreamweaver so you can add in those tags.

I hope this helps! Smile

Cheers,
Mike Briggs - Product Specialist
support@interactivetools.com

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