[RC1] Full Syndication Suite 1.0.RC1 (RSS/ATOM)

[hurry]

The generate_php RSS feeds are giving error and are not accepted in FeedBurner and FeedBlitz: The URL does not appear to reference a valid XML file.

Feed Validator: # line 1, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:1:0: no element found

The feed does open in the Firefox browser though and looks ok. Please help.

[hurry]

?f=3&t=0#p256&style=1 it shows

?f=3&p=256&style=1 works

It is adding some strange t=0 to the link url for each item in the RSS feed. So when we click the link the page of the topic or post on the forum is not found.

[hurry]

The line breaks, photos and smileys appear nicely now with absolute urls which is so cool. The object and embed tag flash videos are still not appearing and I hope you can fix that too as you said. I really like the new Create your Custom Syndication Feed feature. You can't ask for more. Thanks.

I changed the instances you mentioned to and added style=1 but still when I click the brower address bar icons in firefox in the prosilver style it does not go to style=1 and gives an error. Guess I missed to change it somewhere. Do I have to do that in the overall header file too? EDIT: Ok I edited the overall header and it seems to work now.

[Tuk]

Did you read Handyman's announcement? You could try if this fixes your problem.
The bug is currently "fix in progress", so let's see how they fix it.

I have good news for you .
I figured out how to transform youtube objects from HTML into XML and make it part of the feed. I probably won't make it part of the standard distribution as it is too specific in my opinion, but I'll make it available as optional add on for the next release (or earlier, lets see...).

[hurry]

Will the add-on include the embed tags of Google Video too? Flash code basically includes both object and embed while Google video includes only embed. So it would be great to support both object and embed (and param) tags then the adobe flash embed code will be fully supported. Thanks so much.

I did the patch which Handyman suggested. But what about the following problem. It may not be related to this problem because the feeds are being generated but something else may be the problem for the below error. Are your generated feeds accepted by FeedBurner or FeedBlitz?

The generate_php RSS feeds are giving error and are not accepted in FeedBurner and FeedBlitz: The URL does not appear to reference a valid XML file. Feed Validator: # line 1, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:1:0: no element found.

I still get the: "The URL does not appear to reference a valid XML file." error in FeedBurner.

[Highway of Life]

I saw Meik make a commit that had to do with that portion of the system, so I assume the bug is fixed now in the CVS.

[hurry]

There is a problem with this RSS feed and Feedblitz which takes the items in the RSS feeds and sends them out as an email newsletter. Feedblitz is not able to recognize which are the new items to be sent out or becomes confused because of the sid's added to the link tags in the feed as per the ceo of feedblitz. Here is what he wrote to me:

Ok, it?s something to do with your server. During a couple of debug runs, at one point the feed was returning with session ids (of the form &sid=<an alphanumeric string>) appended to the URLs in the RSS. This didn?t match the link information we had (without the session ids) and so it failed to find them as it tried to mail out.

I know you have a custom feed generator there. It is essential that the <link> data is consistent and not contain session information. You should also have your developer ensure that (a) session ids are not accidentally added, and (b) to add the proper date and / or guid data to the feed. Once your links are fixed it will work as you expect. I believe that there may be a timer involved. If it doesn?t work when you submit quickly, go back, pick the articles and wait for a couple of minutes. That might work better.

Can you kindly help Tuk to get over this last hurdle?

[hurry]

Ok, I think the problems except the link url one got solved on it's own. Somehow FeedBurner has accepted the posts forum feed and even though FeedBlitz was giving this sid problem for the directly generated feed when I put the FeedBurner optimized feed into Feedblitz and it seems to work now.

Now Tuk, what to do for this url problem i.e. the item links in the RSS feed for example ?f=3&t=0#p256&style=1 (with t=0) give page missing errors (The requested topic does not exist) and don't go to the topic? Thanks.

[Tuk]

ensure that (a) session ids are not accidentally added
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It is essential that the <link> data is consistent and not contain session information.
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(b) to add the proper date and / or guid data to the feed.

I fixed those issues which caused the problems. I noticed this problem too, when I fetched a feed a second time, all items got duplicated and showed up as new again. This is fixed now.

The missing topic_id has been fixed too.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention, it's great to get those major problems fixed already in this early state of development.

[hurry]

Great, I hope the next version is up soon with the majority of bugs fixed. I am glad I could help for this timely and very useful MOD.