Comments on: ATG RSS Generator Droplet

By: Updates to the ATG RSS Feed Module | Devon Hillard Tech Blog

Updates to the ATG RSS Feed Module | Devon Hillard Tech Blog — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:11:23 +0000

[…] me some code updates I have released a new version of the RSS Feed Droplet (first mentioned in this post) which supports configurable character encodings. This can be very useful if you have “interesting” […]

By: Devon

Devon — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:48:12 +0000

For all of you who are following along at home: the moral of this story is to not reformat the JSP or the added whitespace breaks picky RSS readers.

I’ve also identified a few other areas where my output isn’t 100% in line with the strict spec, which I will work on fixing when I get back from France. However, it seems to work with most readers as is, so don’t hesitate to use it.

By: Devon

Devon — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:26:42 +0000

Hmm. Honestly I only tested it using the Safari built-in RSS reader, so it’s possible that the other readers need a special content type header or something? I don’t have a good answer for you, but I’m happy to work with you to figure it out. Do you have any sample code you can send me or a world facing URL? Feel free to e-mail me: devon@digitalsanctuary.com

By: Doug Henderson

Doug Henderson — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:31:50 +0000

Hey Devon,
Thanks for sharing this code with the world. We just recently decided to use RSS feeds
for our press releases. So I pointed the repository to our PR rep, and used the title and
publishDate as the items to expose and sort by. But I am having trouble with the end
game here. That is, using the above “link href” the Firefox 2 and Sage RSS readers don’t
seem to want to recognize the channel/feed as RSS and instead spew the rendered
contents on the jsp page, rather than have them be discoverable feeds. I am using your
rss.jsp page and the droplet is communicating fine with results. Did you ever have such
a problem and perhaps could shed light on what I might be doing wrong here?
Thanks, Doug

By: Devon

Devon — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:00:31 +0000

Good call!

By: Matt Sidesinger

Matt Sidesinger — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:39:30 +0000

FYI, You could have used the StrSubstitutor in the code that resolves variables in the itemLink property.

http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/text/StrSubstitutor.html