general RSS problem

Discussion in 'XML & RSS' started by Ribo, Apr 11, 2006.

  1. #1
    hi all,

    i've been setting up my RSS feed and i bumped into a problem.. for example in mozilla's thunderbird feeds are displayed like e-mails. their content is the weblink provided within an <item>.

    however, i don't have corresponding weblinks to the items. all of the content i put into the <description> tag. opening items in thunderbird results in a blank white page if there's no link.

    is there any way to let the text provided in <description> appear? or is there maybe another tag for the main content being displayed? i just don't want items being dependant on external links.

    i'd appreciate any hints that point me in the right direction how to solve this.

    cheers,

    ribo
     
    Ribo, Apr 11, 2006 IP
  2. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    Hi Ribo

    You'll find that the link and title are required, description isn't.

    So you'll need to change your script to set up those XML elements correctly if you want the feed to work.
     
    sarahk, Apr 11, 2006 IP