May 20, 2008 at 12:06AM
Annoying problem with the RSS
Gah! I’m at the end of my tether with this Bloglines bug. I haven’t got around to ditching my RSS generator in favour of Atom yet, but this is pushing me towards doing so sooner than I’d imagined. I’ve two perfectly valid RSS feeds, but Bloglines treats the <guid/> elements in both incorrectly. I posted a bug report to them. Here’s what it said:
The RSS <guid/> element is handled incorrectly when its isPermaLink attribute is assigned the value “true”.
What should be happening is that the title of each entry displayed should link to the URL given in this element. However, the entry title link for each entry is, instead, empty.
For an example of a feed that is valid, but rendered incorrectly, see http://talideon.com/weblog/syndication.cfm.
It appears the <guid/> element is being ignored in favour of the contents of the <link/> element, at least going off of this other feed: http://talideon.com/linklog/syndication.cfm. However, this feed is also being rendered slightly incorrectly as the contents of its <guid/> elements is also being ignored when it should be rendered as a permalink to the original item in addition to the linked item.
Chances of it being acted upon any time soon? Meh. I can’t see fixing this being a high priority given that it’s a problem with RSS.
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