RSS Feed

[adparadox]

It doesn't seem like the RSS feed is correctly set-up. Anyone else notice the problem, or is it just me?

[ScoTTie]

Your right, seems the <link> tag is being sent like its an ATOM feed. The rest seems fine though.

[frik85]

Thanks for the information. There are so many RSS formats that it's not easy to write a valid RSS news feed file generator.

I will alter the generator code, please test the RSS news feed (and the atom feed) again and report any problems.

[kenlefeb]

Don't rely on anecdotal feedback to troubleshoot your feed:

http://feedvalidator.org/check?url=http ... ed_rss.xml

This feed does not validate.

line 4, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:4:0: xml declaration not at start of external entity [help]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

Notice the line number. The XML declaration must be on line 1, even though your first 3 lines are blank.

[buiteldk]

Don't rely on anecdotal feedback to troubleshoot your feed:

http://feedvalidator.org/check?url=http ... ed_rss.xml

This feed does not validate.

line 4, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:4:0: xml declaration not at start of external entity [help]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

Notice the line number. The XML declaration must be on line 1, even though your first 3 lines are blank.

This RRS-feed is also not functioning correct:
http://www.reactos.com/wiki/index.php?t ... s&feed=rss

[frik85]

Notice the line number. The XML declaration must be on line 1, even though your first 3 lines are blank.

I will look at the static page generator and remove the blank lines.

This RRS-feed is also not functioning correct:
http://www.reactos.com/wiki/index.php?t ... s&feed=rss

hmm, it's the mediawiki system. Maybe a new patch is available that fix the problem.

[ScoTTie]

Thunderbird fails to parse http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/newsfeed_atom.xml (both RSS/ATOM feeds) currectly. I assume its linked to the newlines at the start of the file.

[frik85]

Finally, I found the new line bug and fixed it. And many other rss/atom feed related glitches.

The RSS feed is now w3c valid:
http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi? ... ed_rss.xml

and the ATOM feed is also w3c valid :
http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi? ... d_atom.xml

To add the ReactOS Website News Feed in e.g. FireFox 1.5, click on the feed icon in the address bar and save the feed bookmark, done.

[adparadox]

It seems to work great now. Thanks!