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Something strange that I did not remark before : when the rss feed is displayed in a rss reader the links do not appear as link but only as text.

The text shown is only the text of the link, but it is not possible to open a new page as there is no link.

Can somebody help ?

Thanks.

Hi, Jim Dad. Can you give us a link to the RSS feed in question?

Yes, of course
http://bit.ly/bjnZp0
The last word “source” at the end of the first post should be a link

Which version/build of ExpressionEngine 1.6.x are you using? You can find that out at the bottom of any control panel page.

The current version of the 1.6.x branch is 1.6.9 and the build is 20100430.

ExpressionEngine 1.6.9 - Version :  20100430

Would help to see the actual template code that is creating the RSS feed for this 😉

Viewing the actual source code of the RSS link that you’ve provided as far as I can tell doesn’t tell us anything as the ‘Source’ word is as you say just plain text therefore showing us the template that creates the RSS feed would definitely help in this matter.

Best wishes,

Mark

So far as I remember it is original code excepted parameters.

{assign_variable:master_weblog_name="xxxxx"}
{exp:rss:feed weblog="{master_weblog_name}"}

<?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>
            <name>{author}</name>
    <dc:rights>Copyright {gmt_date format="%Y"}</dc:rights>
    <dc:date>{gmt_date format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%i:%s%Q"}</dc:date>
    <admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.pmachine.com/" >
    
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{master_weblog_name}" limit="5" rdf="off" dynamic_start="on" disable="member_data|trackbacks"}
    <item>
      <title>{exp:xml_encode}{title}{/exp:xml_encode}</title>
      <link>{title_permalink=tic/index}</link>
      <guid>{title_permalink=tic/index}#When:{gmt_entry_date format="%H:%i:%sZ"}</guid>
      <description>{exp:xml_encode}{summary}{exp:char_limit total="1000"}
{body}
{/exp:char_limit}{/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-%dT%H:%i:%s%Q"}</dc:date>
    </item>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
    
    </channel>
</rss>

{/exp:rss:feed}

Okay so I guess your Source text / link is inside the {summary} variable yes?

If so then how exactly is that text / link formatted?

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi Jim Dad,

As Mark asks, is this link contained within the summary or body fields? What is the formatting for that field? Does the link display properly when this entry is rendered on a standard template?

Cheers

Greg

@Mark, thanks for helping out.

The link is only inside body. There is nothing in the summary field.

Format of the link
Source.

As explained I guess that the template is original.
Nevertheless I made a copy from the original rss_2.0 template and the result is the same.
Only atom template makes a correct display of the link, including <content type=“html”>

Should it makes sense for you, most of the posts are published using Scribefire, so probably that one.

Format of the link
< a target=“_blank” href=“http://www.abc.com/management/article.php?id=91158” >Source< / a >

Oops sorry I could have sworn that the </description> end tag came after the {summary} variable I didn’t even see the {body} variable in there.

Have you tried perhaps taking out the xml encode plugin for now just to see if that’s doing anything to it perhaps?

Try just as standard output and see what that does maybe?

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi Mark,
What do you mean with the “xml encode plugin” ?
Jim

Hi Mark,
What do you mean with the “xml encode plugin” ?
Jim

You have

{exp:xml_encode}

the xml_encode plugin surrounding those variables. Try taking out the {exp:eml_encode} and the {/exp:xml_encode} tags and see if anything changes.

Just a thought though as I’ve had a few problems in the past with surrounding items in RSS feeds with it.

Best wishes,

Mark

Without the xml_encode plugin the feed is displayed empty.