Hi all,

 

I am pretty new to Umbraco but have managed to do alot of cool things in a short space of time. One thing that I simply cannot do is the RSS Feed! This seems to be the most difficult thing to do! I have been trying for days to get this damn thing working but it wont!

 

Ok, here's what i have done,

 

I went into XSLT Files, created a new RSS Feed document, then added the URL to the section in the site, i.e. News, which contains news files. 

 

Please view my code down below.

 

Once I have created this XSLT, I go into the document types, create a new one, with a new master page, add the macro in, then create the page in the Content section.

When I do this I Get the following error:

 

 

ERROR:

 

This page contains the following errors:

 

error on line 3 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document

Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

 

 

Does anyone have any idea where I am going wrong? I have looked at the source and it looks like it's not looping through the directory files of News.

However.....when I add this macro to my home page, it errors, but when looking at the source I can see a load of lovely XML!???

 

What's going on?!?!?

 

 

Thanks

 

Louis

 

 

 

 

 

 

XSLT:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet

  version="1.0"

  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"

  xmlns:rssdatehelper="urn:rssdatehelper"

  xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"

  xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"

  xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" 

  xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltCommon="urn:Exslt.ExsltCommon" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes="urn:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltMath="urn:Exslt.ExsltMath" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions="urn:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltStrings="urn:Exslt.ExsltStrings" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltSets="urn:Exslt.ExsltSets" 

  exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings Exslt.ExsltSets ">

 

 

  <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

 

  <xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

 

  <!-- Update these variables to modify the feed -->

  <xsl:variable name="RSSNoItems" select="string('10')"/>

  <xsl:variable name="RSSTitle" select="string('My sample rss')"/>

    <xsl:variable name="SiteURL" select="string('http://localhost:58281/news.aspx')"/>

  <xsl:variable name="RSSDescription" select="string('Add your description here')"/>

 

  <!-- This gets all news and events and orders by updateDate to use for the pubDate in RSS feed -->

  <xsl:variable name="pubDate">

    <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/* [@isDoc]">

      <xsl:sort select="@createDate" data-type="text" order="descending" />

      <xsl:if test="position() = 1">

        <xsl:value-of select="updateDate" />

      </xsl:if>

    </xsl:for-each>

  </xsl:variable>

 

  <xsl:template match="/">

    <!-- change the mimetype for the current page to xml -->

    <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:ChangeContentType('text/xml')"/>

 

    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;</xsl:text>

    <rss version="2.0"

    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/"

>

 

      <channel>

        <title>

          <xsl:value-of select="$RSSTitle"/>

        </title>

        <link>

          <xsl:value-of select="$SiteURL"/>

        </link>

        <pubDate>

          <xsl:value-of select="$pubDate"/>

        </pubDate>

        <generator>umbraco</generator>

        <description>

          <xsl:value-of select="$RSSDescription"/>

        </description>

        <language>en</language>

 

        <xsl:apply-templates select="$currentPage/* [@isDoc and string(umbracoNaviHide) != '1']">

          <xsl:sort select="@createDate" order="descending" />

        </xsl:apply-templates>

      </channel>

    </rss>

 

  </xsl:template>

 

  <xsl:template match="* [@isDoc]">

    <xsl:if test="position() &lt;= $RSSNoItems">

      <item>

        <title>

          <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>

        </title>

        <link>

          <xsl:value-of select="$SiteURL"/>

          <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)"/>

        </link>

        <pubDate>

          <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(@createDate,'r')" />

        </pubDate>

        <guid>

          <xsl:value-of select="$SiteURL"/>

          <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)"/>

        </guid>

        <content:encoded>

          <xsl:value-of select="concat('&lt;![CDATA[ ', ./bodyText,']]&gt;')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>

        </content:encoded>

      </item>

    </xsl:if>

  </xsl:template>

 

</xsl:stylesheet>