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Engywook
02-21-2008, 12:35 PM
I'm new enough to RSS that I'm not even sure if this is a stupid question.

I see that RSS aggregators tend to expect a link, and will put one there even if I don't explicitly say that I want one. In fact, I'd have thought that with this code, I'm explicitly saying I don't want a link:


<item>
<title>title</title>
<guid isPermaLink="false">unique identifier</guid>
<link/>
<description>description</description>
<pubDate>date</pubDate>
</item>


And yet, iGoogle and MyYahoo! both still put links on the title, while Safari continues to add Read More at the end of the description.

Anything I can do that will tell all aggregators not to insert links?

jkmyoung
02-22-2008, 09:12 AM
Probably not. You could try leaving out the link node altogether, but then the feed might not validate.