Rodent Regatta

In an effort to get extended entries to appear in news aggregators such as FeedDemon or SharpReader, I’ve come up with some true-false questions.

• In order to create or edit an RSS template, you must first understand what each Movable Type tag stands for and does?
• In order to create or edit an RSS template, you must know what each XML tag that wraps around the Movable Type tag does?
• Finally, you must know all of the XHTML/XML syntax that is used in an RSS template?

>From these questions it seems the logical starting point is a thorough review of the Movable Type tags to determine which of them you want to include in your RSS feed. Then, you’ve got to decide whether you are going to include excerpts, full entries, full entries with extended entries or full entries with extended entries as well as comments.

If I’m right about any of this, developing RSS feeds is a non-trivial kind of exercise.