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Problem with RSS feed

 
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Problem with RSS feed
cygnusX
post 9 Oct, 2008 - 08:28 AM
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I'm checking an rss feed for errors into online feed validator and there is the following error: 'Self reference doesn't match document location'.I have this line in the xml document: '<atom:link href="http://localhost/products.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />'. I don't know why i need that line but the validator says that i have to put it in the document because blah blah blah...

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When rel="self", the href attribute is expected to identify a resource equivalent to the containing element.

Solution

Check the document referenced by the href attribute. If it is not the intended feed, correct it.

This may not be a problem. At the current time, the feedvalidator does not probe to assess equivalence of documents.

This doesn't help me,so how to solve that problem?Also i want to ask how to put html link into RSS feed.Let's say i have <item><description>some text<a href="someValue">link</a></description></item>.The feed validator says 'Undefined description element: a'. How to solve those two problems?Thanks in advance.

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Martyr2
post 9 Oct, 2008 - 10:38 AM
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You appear to be mixing RSS and ATOM feed content together. You can't do that. They are two separate specifications. If you were going with ATOM you should be seeing something like...

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<link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://example.org/products.atom"/>


You can take a look at some atom feed examples around the net to see how you structure this properly for atom. If you want RSS, then you can look that up as well, but you can't be mixing them. smile.gif
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post 9 Oct, 2008 - 12:31 PM
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QUOTE(Martyr2 @ 9 Oct, 2008 - 11:38 AM) *

You appear to be mixing RSS and ATOM feed content together. You can't do that. They are two separate specifications. If you were going with ATOM you should be seeing something like...

Yeah,i know they're different specifications.But when i check my feed here i'm receiving this error:

In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendation. line 54, column 1: Missing atom:link with rel="self"
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