[pmwiki-users] RSS feed

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 03:26:45AM -0000, akille.24444274 at bloglines.com wrote:
> Thanks so much for everyone's help. I just updated to the most recent version
> of pmwiki, so the feeds.php script is back to normal. I added the following
> to my config.php script:
> 
> $FeedFmt['rss']['item']['author'] = '$LastModifiedBy';
> 
> $FeedFmt['rss']['item']['description'] = '$LastModifiedSummary';
> 
> However,
> I still don't get a <description> element in my RSS feed. Any ideas?

You'll only get the <description> element if the author puts something
in the "Summary" line of the edit form when submitting a change.  If
the summary is empty (i.e., '$LastModifiedSummary' is blank), then
there's no description created.

If there *is* a summary being entered and it's not showing up in the
feed, let me know and I'll look into it further.  If you can provide
a site url that I could look at, it'll help a bunch.  :-)

Pm



> --- Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com wrote:
> On
> Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 03:58:26PM +0100, Roman wrote:
> > > > Note that you don't
> need to change the feeds.php script itself --
> > > > better might be to do
> (in local/config.php):
> > > >
> > > >    $FeedFmt['rss']['item']['author']
> =
> > > >      "<author><name>{\$LastModifiedBy}</name></author>";
> > > 
> >
> > I have this line in my config and it works fine:
> > > 
> > > $FeedFmt['rss']['item']['author']
> = '$LastModifiedBy';
> > > 
> > > Isn't <author><name> redundant?
> > 
> > Yes,
> in reading the RSS 2.0 spec it appears that the <name>
> > element isn't needed
> (and could in fact be wrong).  So,
> > 
> >    $FeedFmt['rss']['item']['author']
> = '$LastModifiedBy';
> > 
> > works just fine.  I think I will add this particular
> example
> > into the comments of the feeds.php script.
> > 
> > > > The relevant
> variable is {$LastModifiedSummary} -- what RSS
> > > > element do you want
> it to appear under?
> > > 
> > > I use "description" element ($FeedFmt['rss']['item']['description']).
> 
> > 
> > This is fine.  PmWiki doesn't default to this because some would
> >
> argue that the RSS 2.0 <description> element is really meant to 
> > be a summary
> of the entire page (e.g., from the page's 
> > (:description ...:) directive)
> and not simply a summary of the
> > latest change.
> > 
> > Here we can see RSS's
> design criteria showing a bit -- it was really
> > intended to provide information
> about a sequence of articles,
> > as opposed to changes within a single article.
> 
> > 
> > Pm
> > 
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