Hi- I've used RSSBuilder to build an RSS feed
(http://www.themachineband.com/machine.rss).
It reads fine in readers like RSSReader and a few others.

However, when I try to add the feed to say, MyYahoo, it lists the feed
and the headline, but when you click on it, you either get the page
reloading showing nothing new (doesn't open the file to be readable) or
you get the straight xml text.

Any idea why it wouldn't work in all formats?

Thanks
bw

barrywomb wrote:
> Hi- I've used RSSBuilder to build an RSS feed
> (http://www.themachineband.com/machine.rss).
> It reads fine in readers like RSSReader and a few others.
>
> However, when I try to add the feed to say, MyYahoo, it lists the feed
> and the headline, but when you click on it, you either get the page
> reloading showing nothing new (doesn't open the file to be readable) or
> you get the straight xml text.
>
> Any idea why it wouldn't work in all formats?
>
> Thanks
> bw

what format is this 'editor' writing?
2?
atom
straight up xml, dry with a twist?

Looks like (v2.0).
What's the last part of your post mean?


On Dec 13, 5:54 pm, "Gwin" <g...@mindless.com> wrote:
> barrywomb wrote:
> > Hi- I've used RSSBuilder to build an RSS feed
> > (http://www.themachineband.com/machine.rss).
> > It reads fine in readers like RSSReader and a few others.
>
> > However, when I try to add the feed to say, MyYahoo, it lists the feed
> > and the headline, but when you click on it, you either get the page
> > reloading showing nothing new (doesn't open the file to be readable) or
> > you get the straight xml text.
>
> > Any idea why it wouldn't work in all formats?
>
> > Thanks
> > bwwhat format is this 'editor' writing?
> 2?
> atom
> straight up xml, dry with a twist?

barrywomb wrote:
> Looks like (v2.0).
> What's the last part of your post mean?
>
>
> On Dec 13, 5:54 pm, "Gwin" <g...@mindless.com> wrote:
> > barrywomb wrote:
> > > Hi- I've used RSSBuilder to build an RSS feed
> > > (http://www.themachineband.com/machine.rss).
> > > It reads fine in readers like RSSReader and a few others.
> >
> > > However, when I try to add the feed to say, MyYahoo, it lists the feed
> > > and the headline, but when you click on it, you either get the page
> > > reloading showing nothing new (doesn't open the file to be readable) or
> > > you get the straight xml text.
> >
> > > Any idea why it wouldn't work in all formats?
> >
> > > Thanks
> > > bwwhat format is this 'editor' writing?
> > 2?
> > atom
> > straight up xml, dry with a twist?

j/k

far as i know, when you submit feeds to yahoo you have to select a
format for your submission.

ya?

well, all you have to do is add the URL for the feed...
Doesn't really tell you to select a type.
Gwin wrote:
> barrywomb wrote:
> > Looks like (v2.0).
> > What's the last part of your post mean?
> >
> >
> > On Dec 13, 5:54 pm, "Gwin" <g...@mindless.com> wrote:
> > > barrywomb wrote:
> > > > Hi- I've used RSSBuilder to build an RSS feed
> > > > (http://www.themachineband.com/machine.rss).
> > > > It reads fine in readers like RSSReader and a few others.
> > >
> > > > However, when I try to add the feed to say, MyYahoo, it lists the feed
> > > > and the headline, but when you click on it, you either get the page
> > > > reloading showing nothing new (doesn't open the file to be readable) or
> > > > you get the straight xml text.
> > >
> > > > Any idea why it wouldn't work in all formats?
> > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > bwwhat format is this 'editor' writing?
> > > 2?
> > > atom
> > > straight up xml, dry with a twist?
>
> j/k
>
> far as i know, when you submit feeds to yahoo you have to select a
> format for your submission.
>
> ya?

barrywomb wrote:

> http://www.themachineband.com/machine.rss

> However, when I try to add the feed to say, MyYahoo, it lists the feed
> and the headline, but when you click on it, you either get the page
> reloading showing nothing new (doesn't open the file to be readable) or
> you get the straight xml text.

You should validate your feed.
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?u...%2Fmachine.rss

Most obviously it's getting served as a HTTP content-type of text/plain
A well-configured web server at your end would do this as an RSS type
instead. You should be able to fix this through .htaccess or maybe by
pestering the admins. If you're really stuck, sometimes renaming it to
..xml might help.

This is an FAQ (I posted about it again last week) so do some
searching here, in comp.text.xml and c.i.w.a.h

If it's text/plain, then a stupid feed reader might not realise that
it's RSS. They extract the easily available text from the XML and
discard the markup. As that would give the results you describe, that
could be what Yahoo are doing. I've dealt with Yahoo for some years now
and I'm still waiting for them to get a first clue with RSS... 8-(