[fixed] NewsFeed Snippet Does Not Produce RSS Valid Feed

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The current NewsFeed Snippet does not produce a valid RSS feed according to feedvalidator.org. The major issues (not including the minor ones) are that the default date format is incorrect, the author tag must contain an email address, and URL’s cannot be in the description.

Raymond, Ryan asked me to post a URL link for the validation page of your test sites RSS feed:

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpixelhick.com%2Ffeed.xml.html

I have attached a copy of a working version that is RSS valid but it does not include the author tag.

Raymond, all we need to do to include the author tag is pull the admin email address and name and convert the email address to a valid form.

Examples of valid email addresses from feedvalidator.org:

* [email protected]
* [email protected] (Joe Smith)
* Joe Smith <[email protected]>
* [email protected]

Hope this helps!

The feedvalidator.org output for Raymond:

Sorry

This feed does not validate.

*

line 2, column 0: rss is in an invalid namespace: http://backend.userland.com/rss2 [help]

<rss version="2.0" xmlns="http://backend.userland.com/rss2">

*

line 13, column 128: description should not contain relative URL references (2 occurrences) [help]

... ml’&gt;More on this story &gt;</description>
^

*

line 14, column 30: pubDate must be an RFC-822 date-time (2 occurrences) [help]

<pubDate>13-Sep-05 16:00:03</pubDate>
^

*

line 16, column 20: author must include an email address (2 occurrences) [help]

<author>siteadmin</author>
^

Source: http://pixelhick.com/feed.xml.html

   1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
   2. <rss version="2.0" xmlns="http://backend.userland.com/rss2">
   3. <channel>
   4. <title>RSS Feeds</title>
   5. <link>http://pixelhick.com/feed.xml.html</link>
   6. <description></description>
   7. <language>en</language>
   8. <copyright></copyright>
   9. <ttl>1440</ttl>
  10. <item>
  11. <title>Thoughts on Something</title>
  12. <link>http://pixelhick.com/13.html</link>
  13. <description>...<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href='13.html'>More on this story ></a></description>
  14. <pubDate>13-Sep-05 16:00:03</pubDate>
  15. <guid>http://pixelhick.com/13.html</guid>
  16. <author>siteadmin</author>
  17. </item>
  18. <item>
  19. <title>Mini-Blog HOWTO</title>
  20. <link>http://pixelhick.com/article-1126081344.html</link>
  21. <description>...<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href='article-1126081344.html'>More on this story ></a></description>
  22. <pubDate>07-Sep-05 03:22:24</pubDate>
  23. <guid>http://pixelhick.com/article-1126081344.html</guid>
  24. <author>siteadmin</author>
  25. </item>
  26. </channel>
  27. </rss>

CODE REMOVED AND POSTED HERE

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,1049.msg6606.html#msg6606

Has anyone tried the code provided?

Hi Mark,

Many thanks for the updates. Here’s the updated NewsFeed snippet

Raymond... Can you repost the snippet. Getting a bad server response???

That code still doesn’t validate Raymond. Hmm... Using Mark’s as posted above does however.

See the results here: http://pixelhick.com/feed.xml (Mark’s code that does validate)

Called via: [[NewsFeed? &makerss=`1` &newsfolder=`2`]]

I have fixed a MAJOR bug in my code and have gotten the author tag to work. The snippet is now 100% RSS valid and can be found in a new thread.

URL: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,1049.msg6606.html#msg6606