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RSS feed not validating

by Spencer Jones
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Here is the link to my rss feed

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I tried adding the feed to blogging communities and other places. I am having difficulty validating the feed and displaying the content. Can anybody help me find the problem ?

Thanks
Dr.Spencer Jones
#feed #rss #validating
  • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
    The feed validator at w3org calls it valid: http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.c....com%2Ffeed%2F

    What problems are you having? Need to be a little more specific if you can.
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  • Profile picture of the author HorseStall
    You can use software like FeedForAll Create RSS Feeds, Edit and Publish News Feeds with Software to create the feed, in many cases it will repair broken feeds (when it can).

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  • Profile picture of the author Lovelogic
    Holy cow dung! there is a complete webpage in there complete with a javascript cookie planter, YouTube iframes, base 64 encoded images, Flash and I'm having trouble just pasting into a text doc. Finally... it saved and weighs in at 1.47MB

    The feed itself does validate but the size is way to large, RSS feeds are supposed to be small. Would hate to imagine my cell-phone bill with my RSS reader trying to download this every 30 minutes.
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    • Profile picture of the author Spencer Jones
      Originally Posted by Lovelogic View Post

      Holy cow dung! there is a complete webpage in there complete with a javascript cookie planter, YouTube iframes, base 64 encoded images, Flash and I'm having trouble just pasting into a text doc. Finally... it saved and weighs in at 1.47MB

      The feed itself does validate but the size is way to large, RSS feeds are supposed to be small. Would hate to imagine my cell-phone bill with my RSS reader trying to download this every 30 minutes.
      So that could be the problem. What do I do to reduce the size ?

      Thanks...
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  • Profile picture of the author Lovelogic
    RSS feeds are supposed to be short 'teasers' like a newspaper headline. If you are feeding it with a blog then you want to limit it to the first couple of sentences. Don't include text formatting tags like <p> or javascript. Images are optional but should be hotlinked not embedded.

    Remember the purpose of the RSS feed is to attract visitors to the blog. If the entire content of the blog is in the feed there is no reason to visit. Page views == $Profits

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