Just uploaded my first Expression Engine site, and am loving using EE.  I have hit one snag, though - RSS 2 feed is not showing paragraph breaks.  Atom feed works like a dream, but the RSS 2 feed displays as a block of text.  I have done a work around by taking the{body} out of the <description> part, as my sumary is only ever a single paragraph.  However, it would be great to be able to display a full feed.

Atom feed:feed://liveabiglife.com/biglife/index.php/feeds/atom_site/
RSS 2 feed: feed://liveabiglife.com/biglife/index.php/feeds/site_rss/

Here is the template content from one of my RSS 2 feeds (you will see I have removed the {body} part to get it to wrk in the short term.

{assign_variable:master_weblog_name=“journal|leadership|entertainment|technology|world|emergingchurch”}
{exp:rss:feed weblog=“journal|leadership|entertainment|technology|world|emergingchurch”}

<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=”{encoding}”?>
<rss version=“2.0”
  xmlns:dc=“http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/”
  xmlns:sy=“http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/”
  xmlns:admin=“http://webns.net/mvcb/”
  xmlns:rdf=“http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#”
  xmlns:content=“http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/”>

  <channel>
 
  <title>{exp:xml_encode}{weblog_name}{/exp:xml_encode}</title>
  <link>{weblog_url}</link>
  <description>{weblog_description}</description>
  <dc:language>{weblog_language}</dc:language>
  <dc:creator>{email}</dc:creator>
  <dc:rights>Copyright {gmt_date format=”%Y”}</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>{gmt_date format=”%Y-%m- T;%H:%i:%s%Q”}</dc:date>
  <admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource=“http://www.pmachine.com/” />
 
{exp:weblog:entries weblog=”{master_weblog_name}” limit=“10” rdf=“off” dynamic_start=“on” disable=“member_data|trackbacks”}
  <item>
    <title>{exp:xml_encode}{title}{/exp:xml_encode}</title>
    <link>{exp:xml_encode}{title_permalink=LabL/index}{/exp:xml_encode}</link>
    <guid>{title_permalink=site/index}#When:{gmt_entry_date format=”%H:%i:&#xsZ;”}</guid>
    <description>{exp:xml_encode}{summary}{/exp:xml_encode}</description>
    <dc:subject>{exp:xml_encode}{categories backspace=“1”}{category_name}, {/categories}{/exp:xml_encode}</dc:subject>
    <dc:date>{gmt_entry_date format=”%Y-%m- T;%H:%i:%s%Q”}</dc:date>
  </item>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
 
  </channel>
</rss>

{/exp:rss:feed}

Any help would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks!

Thanks for starting a new thread for this.  I will check out the problem and get back to you.

Ok, I checked this out and I am thinking the people that posted in the other thread had the solution. 

Quoting from that thread…

You can go back to that thread to see the full templates they posted.  You could probably just copy that template, paste it into your own and change the settings.  I was able to get this to work on Bloglines but not my preferred ready Rojo.  Did you try this?  If this does not work for you then let me know which reader you are using.

ok, well this is a circular reference.  :(  Andy said he tried it and it didn’t work but looks like you suggested he try it again.  Anyway, I’m having the same problem, tried this CDATA change and it didn’t solve the problem.  Anyone have another suggestion?

my feed: http://chaosfootbag.com/index.php/log/rss_2.0

thx in advance
Eric

I have since created a more informative KB article does that help?  If not, get back to me.

Hi, appreciate your help.  As stated, I have tried this without success - yet.  The aggregators I’ve tested it with are google reader, feedblitz, and feedburner.  Can you provide some examples of feed readers where this technique worked for you?

thx
Eric

Interesting, paragraph breaks are working for me, or is there a different problem?  Also, you have some stray {/exp:xml_encode} tags that need to be removed.

Whoops, I am using Google Reader.

Well, this is frustrating.  It’s finally looking better in feedburner but not in google reader yet.

Perhaps I need to study rss a bit more.  I don’t understand why google reader only displays the title of my entries when I subscribe to the rss feed directly from my site…

http://chaosfootbag.com/index.php/log/rss_2.0

However, when I subscribe to the feed I ‘burned’ at feedburner it’ll show the content of the enties also - although without paragraph breaks as they are displayed at the feedburner site?????

http://feeds.feedburner.com/chaosfootbag

Nother words - still not resolved.  Any chance you could scan my rss feed for obvious errors.

thx
Eric

ah! scratch that last post.  guess it took longer than expected for google reader to refresh but all is looking good now - in google reader and feedburner.  Woohoo!

Thx much for your patience and attention.  The <description><![CDATA[{log_summary}{log_body}]]></description> was the fix for me too.  My guess is that the hanging {exp:xml_encode} you noticed was causing problems initially when I tried that.

Eric

Fantastic!  Thanks.