syndication

RSS or ATOM to syndicate content?

Which is best? I always produce ATOM feeds, as they seem more comprehensive, but I'm not sure which is technically better. ...

RSS Item updates

I'm working on an RSS feed for a custom tasking system we use, and I'm still wrapping my head around how things should work. What I want to have is a feed for each user that shows tasks assigned to them, and additionally a feed for each task that shows updates for the task. What I want to know right now concerns the user feed. When a ...

Problems Reading RSS with C# and .net 3.5

I have been attempting to write some routines to read RSS and ATOM feeds using the new routines available in System.ServiceModel.Syndication, but unfortunately the Rss20FeedFormatter bombs out on about half the feeds I try with the following exception: An error was encountered when parsing a DateTime value in the XML. This seems to ...

Hitting a default RSS or ATOM Path from WCF, Client Only

I'm trying to write a simple WCF Wrapper to load a SyndicationFeed as a client. Contract [ServiceContract] public interface IFeedService { [OperationContract] [WebGet(UriTemplate="")] SyndicationFeed GetFeed(); } Usage using (var cf = new WebChannelFactory<IFeedService>(new Uri("http://channel9.msdn.com/Feeds/RSS"))) { ...

How does the syndication part of RSS work?

I understand how to make an RSS file. The XML for it is simple enough. But do I have to anything special for updates to get distributed or do I just need to update the file periodically and the rest will take care of itself? All of the stuff I've found on rss talk about what it does but not so much how. ...

Is there any defined atom syndication xml schema?

Yep, I asked it. There is no more thing to tell :) Thanks in advance. ...

Is there a non-technical reason for choosing a Syndication format?

I have a project that will need to be able to export data for feed readers. Is there a non-technical reason I should pick RSS over Atom, Atom over RSS, one of the flavors of RSS over another or anything else? In particular, I'm looking for things like low or high adoption, difficulties/incompatibilities or particular ease with popular ...

Problem with excluding namespace from XmlWriter.WriteStartElement.

Hello fellow coders, I have a little problem that perhaps you can help me with. I try to use the XmlWriter to write an XML-tag that looks like this (w3c feed recommendation): <atom:link href="http://localhost" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> The problem is that I can't use the WriteStartElement-method as I would want to (at...

How can I add line breaks to the serialized output of a SyndicationFeed object?

I'm using the SyndicationFeed class to generate an Atom feed and an Atom10FeedFormatter to serialize it. I'd like to be able to add line breaks between the elements when the file gets written to disk. I realize the feed readers don't care, but when I run my docs through http://feedvalidator.org/ it treats the whole doc as a single line...

Create ASP.NET Syndication Feeds with SqlConnection and VB.NET

This seems to be a great article by Scott Mitchell for creating syndicated feeds in ASP.NET 3.5. The problem for me is that it uses C# and Linq, which I'm not as sharp on at the current time. http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/aspnet/How-to-create-a-syndication-feed-for-your-website.aspx Does anyone know where an example might exist f...

Best implementation for a rss feed in C# (ASP.net)

The thing I have a web app (asp.net) which needs to have a feed. So I used the System.ServiceModel.Syndication namespace to create the function that creates the 'news'. The thing is it executes everytime somebody calls it, should I use it just to create an xml file and make my rss url point to the file? What's the best approach? Edit...

How Can I expose RSS Syndication Feed through WCF Web Service to JQuery client

I wanto to build a WCF service that read RSS Syndication Feed (.NET 3.5 SP1). Then I want to consume the wcf service using JQuery in a web client. Are you asking why I don't directly consume it from the client? I think that there are some cross domain security issues when the client is located in a defferent domain. Anyway, if anyone ...

How To Add A SyndicationElementExtension To A SyndicationItem

Using the .NET System.ServiceModel.Syndication classes... I would like to add a new SyndicationElementExtension to a SyndicationItem that will export the following XML: <media:thumbnail url="http://www.foo.com/keyframe.jpg" width="75" height="50" time="12:05:01.123" /> Something along the lines of: syndicationItem.ElementExtensions....

Can I stop the Atom10FeedFormattor from outputting type="text" on Title and Summary tags?

I read in the Atom 1.0 spec that for text constructs the type attribute is optional and if left out the processor must behave as if the value was "text". I'm dealing with a processor (Googlebase, cough..) that doesn't want to see the attribute at all in the feed I'm submitting. Since I'm using the fancy new SyndicationFeed from System....

Linking to full category pages using the category tag in RSS 2.0

Using the category tag in RSS 2.0: <category domain="http://mysite.example.com/tags"&gt; Science and Technology </category> How would I provide an additional URL to the page that shows all of the items in that category? Since the spec doesn't appear cover this, would it be safe to invent a new attribute in my own namespace, like ...

django syndication: how to send a queryset containing all feeds to a template

I'd like to display all available feeds on one page, but I don't want to hard code each feed. Something like sending in a queryset of feeds would be perfect, like: {% for feed in feeds %} {{ feed.link }} {{ feed.name }} {{ feed.description }} {% endfor %} From what I understand, Feeds in the Django Syndication Framework are created as ...

ASP.NET MVC + REST SDK + Atom Feeds + Outlook 2007 formatting

I used the ASP.NET MVC REST SDK for building atom feedS for our exception logging dashboard and it worked perfect. When creating the syndication content, I used CreateHTMLContent and added a PRE tag around my HTML content string. Now it shows in a nice formatted way on internet explorer. But when reading the feed through outlook 2007, ...

Fixing Broken RSS feed, duplicate items via "pubDate"

I am trying to subscribe to an RSS feed for a fighter's history via MixedMartialArts.com, but this particular website updates the pubDate for each of the fights, causing duplicates every time the pubDate is updated. http://www1.mixedmartialarts.com/?go=rss.fighterRecord&amp;pid=8878384A5C892D13 However, other attributes of each remain...

Argotic Feed Framework, get Author Names from RssFeed Object

Hi, Argotic framework provided AtomFeed class that has Authors property for getting Authors for certain, Blog / Webites generating feed. public Collection<AtomPersonConstruct> Authors { get; } On the other side I cannot find Property for RssFeed class which could be used to extract Authors for certain blog / webite, generating feed....

WCF Syndication Service not found in II6

I have a WCF Syndication Service that works fine when run locally on Windows Vista or Windows 7, but when it is deployed to a Windows 2003 Server, it gets a 404 (Resource cannot be found). Non-REST WCF services work fine on this machine, so I know that .Net 3.5 is registered correctly in IIS. Any suggestions? ...