MT 3.2 Atom Feed Template Problem

I noticed that since I upgraded to MT 3.2 my atom feed – the main one since the switch – wasn’t being displayed correctly in Safari’s RSS Reader. The culprit: a slight problem with the content-type in the template for atom.xml.

To correct the problem, find where it says <content type="html" ... and change "html" to "text/html" and all should be fine again.

The index.xml template works just fine though I’ve yet to bring either the comments.xml or index.rdf up-to-date. The former is just laziness – I need to remember how I converted the original index.html template; The latter is because MT seem to have dropped support for RSS formats <2.0. Neither of these is really an issue as they worked before and continue to work now.

FWIW, I’m considering removing index.rdf sometime soon anyway as I’m pretty sure almost every RSS reader now supports at least RSS 2.0 and most-likely Atom as well.`

Updated 17 October 2005

Seems there are all sorts of problems with the template. I ran it through a feed validator service and I’m frankly staggered anyone can actually read my blog. It seems the content type can be left as “html” after all but I needed to change a whole-lotta other stuff to get it to pass. Interestingly, Safari now sometimes manages to read the whole feed just fine. Go figure? Luckily I recently switched to using PulpFictionLite as my news reader. Safari just doesn’t cut it I’m afraid. Anyway, it’s just another example of what can happen when I try playing with things about which I understand very little. Sigh.