Aggregating Blogs through FeedBurner

Derek Lakin

My blog's feed[^] is currently served up by FeedBurner and provides categories in the following format:

<entry ...>
<id>...</id>
<category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="CodeProject" />
...

I believe this is an Atom format, so I'm guessing the absence of any blog articles for my feed indicates that this isn't a supported format yet. Is this right? Cheers, Derek.

Thiru Thirunavukarasu

Yes that's correct. We weren't sure that there would be much demand for formats other than RSS (Atom, OPML) so we chose not support as it would've meant more development time and testing :). So.. we'll consider it if the demand is there. Maybe you can ask FeedBurner to generate RSS rather than Atom? Or in addition to your existing feed at another URL?

Derek Lakin

OK, thanks for confirming that. From what I can see, if I specify "?alt=rss" at the end of the source feed in FeedBurner and turn off SmartFeed it will produce an RSS format feed. I'll wait and see if CP picks up any articles now. NOTE: The "?alt=rss" will only work if your feed is provided by blogger.

Bob Nadler

I think I may have the same problem. My feed re-directs to FeedBurner. Here's what they're sending:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?>
<rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Bob on Medical Device Software</title>
<link>http://rdn-consulting.com/blog</link>
<description>Software Development and Biomedical Engineering</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1</generator>
<language>en</language>
sy:updatePeriodhourly</sy:updatePeriod>
sy:updateFrequency1</sy:updateFrequency>
<atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/BobOnMedicalDeviceSoftware" type="application/rss+xml" />
<item>
<title>Software Verification vs. Validation</title>
<link>http://rdn-consulting.com/blog/2009/03/26/software-verification-vs-validation/</link>
<comments>http://rdn-consulting.com/blog/2009/03/26/software-verification-vs-validation/#comments</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
dc:creatorBob</dc:creator>
<category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[Software Quality]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[verification vs. validation]]></category>
<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rdn-consulting.com/blog/?p=257</guid>
<description><![CDATA[For some reason it just really bugs me that these two terms are incorrectly interchanged so frequently.
...

Bob on Medical Device Software [^]

Thiru Thirunavukarasu

Great! Looks like it worked.

Thiru Thirunavukarasu

Have you tried Derek's trick? Also be sure to have "codeproject" in <category> element(s).

Bob Nadler

Now using http://rdn-consulting.com/blog/feed?alt=rss[^] and turned off SmartFeed, but it looks like the generated XML is still ATOM. One of my posts does have:

How will I know if the changes I made work with the CP aggregator?

Bob on Medical Device Software [^]