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by Andrew Dalke.
Original Post: RSS feed up and running
Feed Title: Andrew Dalke's writings
Feed URL: http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/diary-rss.xml
Feed Description: Writings from the software side of bioinformatics and chemical informatics, with a heaping of Python thrown in for good measure.
Got PyRSS2Gen to dump RSS2 from my website's bailing-wire and
chewing-gum content management system. Tested it against feedvalidator.org. Fixed a
few bits of code (but none in PyRSS2Gen) and got everything to pass.
Then downloaded an RSS viewer for the Mac and tested it on my site
and a few others'.
Turns out most people either have a description put their full entry
text in the description field, except for AMK who didn't have a
description. I had used a HTML->text conversion then chopped the
text at the last space before character 300 if it was too long.
Since it looks like most people expect full text in the feed, I
decided to go along with the crowd. Now my feed doesn't cleanly
validate, since the hand-written part of my actual content uses
relative links. These are all rooted, so the RSS viewer I'm using
handles it correctly given the feed's URL, but I wonder what'll happen
when I forgot about that restriction and use a ../.. in an entry.
Well, par for the course I guess.
As it seems to work, I'll try registering with Artima. If it works
but my rickety RSS code causes a kerfluffle in your readers, let me
know.
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