Why doesn't the News Module produce a valid/usable RSS Feed?

[casidougal]

Does anyone know why the news module doesn't produce a valid auto discovery RSS feed? I would think this would be a pretty basic function of the module but on multiple site installs with the news module I'm starting to notice that not only is it not valid, FeedBurner will not even accept it and FeedBurner has many times burned ugly invalid feeds for me. If FeedBurner wont accept it the xml has to be pretty bad.

It seems to me that I've set up news modules that produced usable RSS feeds with prior versions of CMSMS...but maybe that's just my early onset of Alzheimers talking.

If I missing something simple here please be merciful and fill me in

I did find a cheat, in this post by bladenet http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/topic,11533.0.html, but it makes no sense why one would have to go through all this for such basic functionality.

[Dr.CSS]

So how did you use it, did it make a button, do you have an example of it not working...

You have to register to Feed Burner for it to take it, I had one site we used FB and it said it was fine...

[casidougal]

So how did you sue it, did it make a button,

To create a RSS feed from the News module I just check "Show Feed Auto-Discovery Link" in the News module option page, then grab the RSS URL from the address bar in Firefox when I navigate to the main news page (the orange RSS button will be in the address bar, just click on that).

Coincidently, using the |makerssbutton="true"| parameter in the news module tag has never worked for me...when I add that parameter the news content disappears.

do you have an example of it not working...

I don't at this moment as I've applied the aforementioned fix ... here's an example of work in progress site with the RSS applied and fix in place: http://cheers4charity.com/News/rss/

You have to register to Feed Burner for it to take it, I had one site we used FB and it said it was fine...

I've developed quite a few blogs (using Blogger or CMSMS as the backend) and I've been using FeedBurner -a great free resources for Web 2.0 development btw- extensively the last 1+ year. I have burned quite a few RSS feeds from previous CMSMS sites without a problem. Either I wasn't paying attention or this issue has manifested recently.

[Caspar]

Either I wasn't paying attention or this issue has manifested recently.

Must have. I don't know much about feeds, I just try to get it right in Firefox (the button in the address bar).
News 2.2 works fine on my site while News 2.5.1 from the latest CMSMS package messes up the links somehow:

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domain.end/news/1/19/

gets cut down to

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domain.end/news/1/

which leads to the home page, not to the article.

I use mod_rewrite as described in the wiki. I also searched the forums extensively without finding a working solution. The problem seems to be well known, though. Has any of you found out anything new?

THANKS,
Caspar

[Dr.CSS]

If you make RSS button on the same page as articles show it should only get those articles, you have to use the news tag twice once for RSS button one for news, RSS button tag only makes button, doesn't show news...