Dates in RSS Feeds
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Scott September 2011

    Maybe I am totally missing the boat here, but is there a way to control the date associated with each entry in an RSS feed?

    http://docs.vaeplatform.com/v_rss

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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Scott September 2011

    To clarify, I know I can create my own rss feed (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html) using v:collection, etc., but what I am getting at is a simple attribute for v:rss that lets me show a pubDate for each item.

    This isn't a biggie, mostly curious if that attribute is available for v:rss.

  • Vote Up0Vote Down KevinKevin September 2011

    Here's how we do it:

    <v:rss>
    <pubDate>
    <v:text path="posted_on" strftime="%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z" />
    </pubDate>
    </v:rss>

    Yeah, that should probably be built-in somehow. But this works!

  • Vote Up0Vote Down Scott September 2011

    Worked like a charm. Thanks.

  • Vote Up0Vote Down Scott September 2011

    Btw... for anyone else checking this out. Be sure to the v:rss tag rather than constructing your own rss feed using something like v:collection. The advantage to using the v:rss tag - aside from the fact that its less code to write - is that it strips out the html characters that are not valid in an rss feed (e.g. the non-breaking space character is not valid in an rss feed).
     

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