[ROL-297] Include <guid> elements in default RSS feeds

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.8.2, 0.9.9
• Component/s: Newsfeeds (RSS & Atom)
• Browser Version: Feed Demon 1.0 Full
• Assignee: David Johnson
• Reporter: Michael Koziarski
• Created: 07/Jan/04 20:36
• Updated: 08/Jan/14 04:13
• Resolved: 06/Mar/04 21:49

Description

It would be nice if the default Roller RSS templates supported the <guid> element. The guid element allows aggregators to uniquely identify a post, and differentiate updates from new posts.

At present, feed demon displays duplicates whenever an item is updated. Feed demon does the following:

If a feed uses <guid> there's no problem since that IDs each item, but when <guid> is absent FeedDemon does the following:

1) If a feed's items have a publication date, then FD uses <title> + <pubDate> (or <title> + <dc:date>) as the unique ID

2) If the feed doesn't contain publication dates, then FD uses <title> + <link> as the unique ID

3) If the feed doesn't contain <link>, then only <title> is used