#3150 closed Defect (fixed)
Missing description in RSS 2.0 feeds
| Reported by: | hellekin | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Elgg 1.8.1 |
| Component: | Core | Version: | 1.7 |
| Severity: | minor | Keywords: | rss, validation, interoperability |
| Cc: | brett@… | Difficulty: |
Description
RSS 2.0 feeds fail to validate without a "description" field.
The views/rss/pageshell.php misses a description tag after the title.
With this added, Elgg generated RSS feeds could be read by e.g., Thunderbird.
The current workaround is to use the extensions/channel view to generate the proper tag. But that tag should be provided by default, as it will allow the feed to pass the W3C Feed Validator test.
Change History (6)
comment:1 Changed 2 years ago by cash
- Milestone changed from Needs Review to Elgg 1.8
comment:2 Changed 2 years ago by ewinslow
- Milestone changed from Elgg 1.8 to Elgg 1.8.1
IMHO, an acceptable shortcoming for a 1.8.0 release. Pushing this back.
comment:3 Changed 19 months ago by cash
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
Fixes #3150 added a blank description field so RSS is valid - any better ideas?
Changeset: 3696b578127dca0947871ca85f2a16ff2043aa11
comment:4 Changed 19 months ago by cash
Fixes #3150 added a blank description field so RSS is valid - any better ideas?
Changeset: 3696b578127dca0947871ca85f2a16ff2043aa11
comment:5 Changed 19 months ago by Cash Costello
Refs #3150 can pass description to RSS page shell
Changeset: 42e3a3353eb524fc984f72e2b525d5597444d1aa
comment:6 Changed 18 months ago by Cash Costello
Refs #3150 can pass description to RSS page shell
Changeset: ba2a8532175992897d0a3559e6c1f66010eaa3fc
The description will be empty as we have no information to fill the description with. Could create a view for this...