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RSS Update

There's been a fair bit of 'dicking around' with the RSS feeds on the site these last few days. Now that most of the work is done here's an update on where to point your RSS readers.

To access the main RSS feed for this site look no further than http://www.edpriceishungry.com/rss/ (the previously available URLs http://www.edpriceishungry.com/feed/ and http://www.edpriceishungry.com/feed/all/ will also still work). At present the main feed is provided by Feedburner, but the above URL now automatically redirects to Feedburner, so there's no need to use any other link.

The formatting for the main feed has also changed recently. In a bid to offer the complete content of each article, with html formatting, in a way that should be compatible with most rss readers, the main body of the article has been moved to a new <content:encoded> element (and placed within CDATA tags). The summary for each article is placed within the standard <description> element. However, since most readers seem to show either the <content> or the <description> but not both, the summary is repeated at the top of the <content> element.

I've also reconfigured the feed so that any attachments to articles should now be available via rss as well. Strictly speaking the rss format allows only one enclosure element (or, attachment) per item (or, article) so in cases where an article has more than one attachment you may only see one turning up in the feed. We'll see....

For the time being I'm maintaining the separate 'by category' feeds, but it's likely that I'll also move those to feedburner in the near future. When that happens it's likely that the links to those feeds will change (unless I can figure out a viable method of providing an automatic redirect).

Apologies for the inconvenience to those few of you who have had to change your rss links recently. The Feedburner URL will still work, but for maximum futureproofing you may wish to use http://www.edpriceishungry.com/rss/ since that URL will now *always* work, whether redirected or not.

Posted:  March 02, 2010 at 12:52

Filed under: Miscilliness

Author: Justin (contact)

Last edit: March 02, 2010 - 13:02

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