Re: RSS - ASP

As "The Feed Validator" (http://feedvalidator.org) suggests, it would
be better to serve the feeds with a more appropriate mime type (such
as "application/xml", or if you want to be daring
"application/rss+xml"). I think strictly speaking as it stands they're
not XML, hence not valid RSS, RFC 3023 is the key doc. This may not be
a problem with the majority of aggregators, quite a high proportion of
feeds are served with inappropriate mime types, but by following the
specs on this you can reduce the chance of problems.

You may also want to ensure the right charset is being used, the key
lines will be something like:

Response.ContentType = "application/xml"
Response.Charset = "utf-8"

Note also that depending on the source of the feed content it's very
easy to produce feeds that are intermittently invalid. I can cite my
own blog on this - if I copy & paste content and forget to check,
characters that aren't legal in the served character set can get
published.

Cheers,
Danny.

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:53:52 -0000, presh982 <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I finished 10 rss feeds last night that draw out of a mysql database
> using asp. They are located here: http://www.tlpn.org/Christian-
> Prayer-RSS-Feed.html I ran each one through a validator but was
> wondering if they are completely compatible across the board for as
> many feeders as possible? I would expect that there is a variety of
> feed readers being used by the group who could verify that the feeds
> work in their readers. Thanks for your time.
> 
> Preston
> 
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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