I want to be able to simply feed the latest site changes (regardless of> category or publication type) through the feed.

Am 21.11.2004 um 08:11 schrieb JD:> >

JD, have you tried http://yoursite.com­/index.php/articles/­?theme=rss ?>

Cheers> Marten>

It appears that there is an ' (apostrophe) in the text (the word> Australia's) and that breaks the feed. I have apostrophes all through my> text, so this is an issue. I will check on Bugzilla to see if it has been> mentioned and/or addressed.>

Now, having said that I have set up my site with categories as navigational> sections. For instance:>

news (c1)> ---racing (c2)> ---product (c3)> ---industry (c4)>

I should be able to see all categories under news by using> /articles/c_1/?them­e=rss but I see nothing (actually it fails due to '> apostrophe issue). Other categories fail with an error in xarBLCompiler.php,>­ line 147, 'Read Length Must Be Greater Than 0'. All categories have content.>

I am guessing that the feed only shows articles with status set to> 'Frontpage', whereas I want it to show any new article added at all.>

Once again any help would be appreciated.>

Cheers,> John>

In my experience it isn't an apostophe that causes it to fail - e.g. '> and " are both fine.> Its the curly single quote sign that comes from using something like MS> Word to write the text which then gets converted to a special character> in HTML (somehting like ’).> Obviously thats fine at display time but it isn't valid XML.

back slanted one etc...) and it fixed that issue . of course it then

Oh Dear.>

Cheers,> jd>

"JD" <jd-O3YU8AaJcQW9dsP­5Zq5rXgC/G2K4zDHf@pu­blic.gmane.org> wrote in message> news:cnu1ne$912$1@n­ewton.xaraya.com...>­ > Well I am a little mystified. IE6 fails to show the document with the> error> > I described - and of course won't give me the source because of it. I> tried> > IE5.5 and it shows the doc. Firefox shows the doc too. It may only be an> IE6> > issue.> >

John - could you post the section of the feed that is failing (using "View> Source" in your browser)?>

-- JJ>

issue.>

I have copied the offending xml code into this message:>

<content:encoded><!­[CDATA[ This Friday (10th September) the doors opened

Australia's largest motorcycle expo. ]]></content:enc­oded>>

It shows as a ( ' ) character in this email - source form Firefox, but it

actually a ( ')character in the IE 5.5 version.>

I don't use MSWord to write the text, and if I receive text in MSWord or> other MS types I process it to get rid of strange entities etc... It

I love XML (no really).>

Cheers,> jd>

"Jason Judge" <judgej-gn8pmO+6nsz­QT0dZR+AlfA@public.g­mane.org> wrote in message> news:cnsein$o6$1@ne­wton.xaraya.com...> >

Out of interest, what character set is showing in the RSS feed header, and> what character set is defined for your site (assuming these stories are> entered into the site through the standard forms).>

-- JJ>

"JD" <jd-O3YU8AaJcQW9dsP­5Zq5rXgC/G2K4zDHf@pu­blic.gmane.org> wrote in message> news:cnu260$9hi$1@n­ewton.xaraya.com...>­ > Oops, of course the characters won't show here - i will try and find the> > correct entity types to explain. In the mean time I have gone into the> > document and altered the offender to be a standard ' (not a curly one,

Ahhh, interesting Site Default Locale - en_US.iso-8859-1>

Hmmmm. These storeis are entered through the standard forms (Dynamic Data

a lot of cases).>

Will changing the site setting to en_US.utf-8 mean that any story with

"JD" <jd-O3YU8AaJcQW9dsP­5Zq5rXgC/G2K4zDHf@pu­blic.gmane.org> wrote in message> news:cnu403$aur$1@n­ewton.xaraya.com...>­ > UTF-8 for the feed.> >

I suspect that is the problem. The RSS reader is expecting to see UTF-8> characters, where a curly apostrophy or full-size hyphon consists of two

more bytes > chr 128. The site setting of 8859-1 means those same

How a browser or reader handles that is up to that browser or reader. It> could make a guess, ignore the character altogether, or raise an error.>

Could the feed characterset be changed to iso-8859-1? That should work.>

Alternatively, the site could be changed to UTF-8. Yes, it would mean the> existing stories would then be filled with invalid characters. Some people> have had some success exporting those tables to a text file, converting

characterset using EditPlus2 or some other such editor, then reloading the> tables. Do that with care though, as it can also introduce errors if the> wrong thing is converted or some fields end up too large for their

-- JJ>

(although I really don't want to tackle it myself). The thing that I> struggling with is where the content can potientally come from, does> it have to be a website or can I make a custom RSS feed from a Google> news search?

I am afraid that I might be confusing the function of an RSS feed with> a newsreader but I really can't find any information on the creation> of a feed that will confirm or deny this.

In my own perfect world, I> want it to be as simple as setting Google News Alerts on my specific> topics and somehow have them dynamcially update onto my site as they> happen.

The objective is to garner more incoming links from sites like mine> and to give my customers a reason to return to my site.

Thanks John,>

You are right.. I don't think I truly understood what a RSS feed was.

Why would they link to it?

I suppose people in the industry I work in> are notoriously non-techical. They have websites created and> maintained by others but they want content. Even the basic things

I've never done RSS Feeds before. Can someone please provide brief>details about RSS Feeds. I'll be running this on CF 5.0.>

I'll basically be displaying RSS Feeds from a few different sources,>NY Times etc.>

Also can I control how many are displayed per feed? For example I want>3 from NY times, 2 from Wash Post etc etc..>

If anyone has an simple tutorials they've found helpful. >

Thanks in advance. >

Ryan

I've never done RSS Feeds before. Can someone please provide brief >details about RSS Feeds. I'll be running this on CF 5.0.>

I'll basically be displaying RSS Feeds from a few different sources, NY

Times etc.>

Also can I control how many are displayed per feed? For example I want>3 from NY times, 2 from Wash Post etc etc..>

If anyone has an simple tutorials they've found helpful. >

Thanks in advance. >

Ryan

-----Original Message-----> From: Scott Stewart [mailto:sstewart@gnsi.com] > Sent: 14 November 2005 20:15> To: CF-Community> Subject: RSS Feeds>

All, >

I have an application that generates an XML file for an RSS > Feed. Does each XML record require each field to be populated?>

If this is my feed XML>

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>> <rss version="2.0">> <channel>> <item>> <title>Title</title­>> <category>Category<­/category>> <link>http://www.fi­rst.fda.com</link> > <description>Summar­y</description>> <language>en-us</la­nguage>> <lastBuildDate>#the­Datetime#</lastBuild­Date>> </item>> </channel>> </rss>> </xml>>

Does each field have to be populated?>

Thanks>

Scott A. Stewart> ColdFusion Developer>

GNSI> 11820 Parklawn Dr> Rockville, MD 20852> (301) 770-9610 >

hello, im looking for a program (php or something simaler) to install on my> server that will decode RSS feeds so that they appear normally on my site.>

For instance : http://news.google.­com/?output=rss is a free RSS feed from> google that updates all the time.>

I would like to install a server based program that can decode and display> the feeds normally.>

Is there a particular RSS program that is more popular then others? i would> like to have the most common and basic program installed.>

any info would be great.>

MB

I need something thats mainstream, uses PHP, and is installed on the> server. the 2nd link you provided looks like a desktop type application.

Useless fact: 111111 X 111111 = 12345654321

What bearing RSS feeds have on google pr's?

How do you submit to these feeds?