RSS Module - MagpieRSS problem

[TonyP]

I am trying to pull the news feed from one of my existing CMSMS sites into a new CMSMS site with the RSS Module and get the following warnings:

Warning: MagpieRSS: Failed to parse RSS file. (mismatched tag at line 79, column 247) in /home/stitt4/public_html/stittsville_rams/modules/RSS/rss_fetch.inc on line 238

The URL I used in the tag is http://www.stittsvilleminorhockey.com/house/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,rss&cntnt01showtemplate=false&cntnt01category=&cntnt01number=20&cntnt01returnid=102 which I got from the address bar of the news feed from the existing site.

I have tried another feed URL and everything works fine so it seems to be a problem with the URL from my existing site. Could the URL be too long?

Oh, the existing site is - http://www.stittsvilleminorhockey.com/house/

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Tony

[Pierre M.]

Hello Tony,

I can't find any RSS subscribe button/link on your site. I think you are feeding the RSS module with HTML (and not RDF) exported by the news module.

Have you tried {news makerssbutton="true"} ? The link to it may be the link you are looking for.

Pierre M.

[TonyP]

Thanks Pierre M.

Have you tried {news makerssbutton="true"} ? The link to it may be the link you are looking for.

I just tried that, the button is still there and it gives the URL http://www.stittsvilleminorhockey.com/house/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,rss,0&cntnt01makerssbutton=true&cntnt01showtemplate=false&cntnt01returnid=102 which has the same affect.

Hmm...any other thoughts?

T.

[Pierre M.]

Hello again Tony,

I've found an RSS/XML button on your site :
http://www.stittsvilleminorhockey.com/h ... s-archives
(at the bottom)

When I clic on this button, my firefox2 opens it without complaining. The webserver header of the 200 OK response is Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8 which is nice. If I view source, I see an XMS RDF feed. I can clic on an item and go to the according page : it works.

Try to read it with another feed reader, like Thunderbird.

You may also like the detailpage option of the {news} tag. It shows news on a specific page of your site, even for "return links" from RSS feed.

Pierre M.

[TonyP]

Hi Pierre,

It does work for me both in FF and IE but I tried it in a little reader app I have and it failed there with the following error:

Feed failed! Causes may be (1) No data found for RSS feed http://www.stittsvilleminorhockey.com/h ... nt01,rss,0;

This leads me to suspect that the reader (and RSS Module) is truncating the URL at the first ampersand.

Way beyond my level of expertise, but I wonder if there is a way to get the RSS Module to ignore ampersands in the URL.

T.

[alby]

It does work for me both in FF and IE but I tried it in a little reader app I have and it failed there with the following error:

Feed failed! Causes may be (1) No data found for RSS feed http://www.stittsvilleminorhockey.com/h ... nt01,rss,0;

This leads me to suspect that the reader (and RSS Module) is truncating the URL at the first ampersand.

In News code there are & (W3C correct)
Your link:

http://www.stittsvilleminorhockey.com/h ... turnid=102

I think that your reader have a problem with them.

Alby

[TonyP]

Thanks Alby,

The reader that I am using is the RSS Module from CMSMS and the feed URL is from another CMSMS site. I would have hoped that they would be compatible.

Maybe I'm missing something about how to find the news feed URL from a CMSMS site. Is there a shorter version than that created by the RSS button?

T.

[alby]

The reader that I am using is the RSS Module from CMSMS and the feed URL is from another CMSMS site. I would have hoped that they would be compatible.

RSS Module is deprecated (it's a old module and mybe unsupported)
There is a new project but no file released
Have you try with this old tag (plugin not module) for feed URL?

Alby

[TonyP]

Thanks for the tips Alby, I'll try them out.

T.

[Pierre M.]

RSS Module is deprecated

This is sad news. Aggregating RSS feeds is a nice to have feature.

Pierre M.

[alby]

This is sad news. Aggregating RSS feeds is a nice to have feature.

I hope that Silmarillion released soon or if I have spare time 

Alby

[faglork]

Hi Alby!

I hope that Silmarillion released soon or if I have spare time 

Alby

Any update on this?
I need an RSS aggregator and wonder whether I should wait or construct my own magpi-to-cmsms version (probably an UDT)

Cheers,
Alex

[alby]

Any update on this?

Have you look to RSS2HTML?

Alby

[faglork]

Thx!

Must have overlooked that ...

Cheers,
Alex