I'm adding a syndication feed to a site. It's a read-only series of "articles", without comments. Is there any reason to prefer RSS 2.01 r2, Atom, or RSS 0.9.1? Are they all equally compatible with most users' software? I'm inclined to go with RSS 2.01 because it's the latest "simple" format supported by webhelpers.feedgenerator, and we don't need all the read-write methods of Atom (although we might use them in another site later).
i'd check to see what wordpress is supporting , and look into their
ticketing system for updates. they've in the lead now on cms stuff,
and the critical mass that's driving a lot of work. not saying
they're better, but they're more ubiquitous.
i'd also look at what facebook is supporting, since they're moving a
bit in the syndication direction too.
I've implemented the feeds at http://incidentnews.gov/ , in both RSS and Atom. If somebody could check the HTML and feed XML for errors, I'd be grateful. There are permanent links in the page footer, temporary links in the home page introduction, and an Atom <link> in the HTML head.
> I've implemented the feeds at http://incidentnews.gov/ , in both RSS > and Atom. If somebody could check the HTML and feed XML for errors, > I'd be grateful. There are permanent links in the page footer, > temporary links in the home page introduction, and an Atom <link> in > the HTML head.
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Mike Orr <sluggos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've implemented the feeds at http://incidentnews.gov/ , in both RSS > and Atom. If somebody could check the HTML and feed XML for errors, > I'd be grateful. There are permanent links in the page footer, > temporary links in the home page introduction, and an Atom <link> in > the HTML head.
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Matt Feifarek <matt.feifa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Mike Orr <sluggos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've implemented the feeds at http://incidentnews.gov/ , in both RSS >> and Atom. If somebody could check the HTML and feed XML for errors, >> I'd be grateful. There are permanent links in the page footer, >> temporary links in the home page introduction, and an Atom <link> in >> the HTML head.
That's because of the trailing slash. Where did you find the link?
FeedGenerator is undocumented, so I had to guess at some of the arguments. I'll have to figure that out for the WebHelpers documentation. Some of the errors are because the format requires an Author field but the data doesn't have authors, and it also expects date-time but I only have date. I set the times to midnight but then it shows up in the feed as if all the records were created at midnight. I'll have to work around those. The feeds work in Firefox but some of the URLs are becoming relative; that's either a bug in FeedGenerator or my misuse of the arguments.
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