[thelist] HTML in RSS -- Separating Items
Steve Axthelm
steveax at pobox.com
Tue Apr 7 12:51:09 CDT 2009
On 2009-04-07 Tony Spiro wrote:
> I'm completely new to RSS and was hoping I could get some help syndicating
> some html content.
>
> The issue I'm having is Google Reader recognizes the HTML between the
> description tags just fine, however it does not separate the different items
> in the channel. Here's what I got for the XML:
>
> <?xml version="1.0">
This should be:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <rss version="2.0">
> <channel>
> <title>My Denton Music : News</title>
> <link>http://www.mydentonmusic.com/news.php</link>
> <description>Connect With Your Denton Music Scene</description>
> <language>en-us</language>
> <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:00:00 GMT</lastBuildDate>
> <item>
> <title>Electric Six @ The Boiler Room </title>
> <link>http://www.mydentonmusic.com/news.php</link>
> <description>
> <img align='right' width='420px' style='padding-left: 20px' src='
Angle brackets need to be encoded:
(< >)
or enclosed in CDATA blocks:
<description>//<![CDATA[
[...]
//]]></description>
Validators are your friend:
<http://validator.w3.org/feed/>
HTH,
-Steve
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Steve Axthelm
steveax at pobox.com
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