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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

TonyP wrote: 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

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.

TonyP wrote: 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

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

T.

alby wrote: RSS Module is deprecated

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

Pierre M.

Pierre M. wrote: 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

Hi Alby!

alby wrote: 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

faglork wrote: Any update on this?

Have you look to RSS2HTML?

Alby

Thx!

Must have overlooked that ...

Cheers,
Alex