What is the point of an RSS item without a link, and what do I do with it? - rss

According to the RSS spec https://www.rssboard.org/rss-draft-1#element-channel-item
An item MAY contain the following child elements: author, category, comments, description, enclosure, guid, link, pubDate, source and title. All of these elements are OPTIONAL but an item MUST contain either a title or description.
If I'm building an RSS reader, what exactly am I supposed to do with an item without a link? What even is the point of listing such an item?

Why would you assume that a link is required? Just show everything as normal, but don't have a link to anything.

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The problem isn't the CSS. You have some unclosed <i> tags that are causing the issue. The first <li> is missing out on the party while the rest are being completely wrapped by a single <i> (and also contain their own nested ones).
Here's a screenshot of the rendered dom for the recent news list. If you still can't figure it out try posting your template code.

One textbox to search three fields of a CCK content type, how?

I have a CCK content type which is composed of node Title, Color, Width, Height, Comment.
Currently I have a view with one exposed field Title to search content.
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It's not desirable to expose three fields for the purpose.
The solution I used is here
While it sounds complicated, this is the simplest and most useful.
If you need further help, don't hesitate to contact me.

Drupal, Views: Search FIlter, how can I ignore some nodes?

I'm using "Search" exposed filter in Views (DRupal):
It works great, however I would like to ignore a specific node, if it is possible, and always display it, regardless the filter options.
how can I do that ? Is possible to specify the Search filter for only a specific content type ?
thanks
Here's what to do:
Add a new display to your view that is an attachment view. In the attachment, override all of your other filters etc and set up the view so that it just loads the single node that you want. Attach this view to the top or bottom of your search view as required.
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Finbarr's answer is pretty solid. The one thing its missing is the answer to whether you can exclude a specific content type from the search view... yes, you can.
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How to show article link and sub-feed link in an RSS feed?

I'm working on some RSS feeds for a custom task system we have. The main feed will show a list of tasks assigned to the current user. The link attribute for each task returned points to the web page for that task. However, tasks themselves have an RSS feed for updates, and I want to be able to provide a link for that RSS feed with the main feed as well. How can I do both?
The solution I'm thinking of right now is setting the article's title attribute to include an <a href="..." link to the actual article, and the it's link attribute to be a link to the feed (or vice versa). However, I'm not sure that will work well since most readers display the title as linking to the link (if that makes any sense to you).
Also, is this something that's supported natively by atom?
Make the content of each item in the original RSS feed HTML. (I believe you'll have to CDATA escape the block). Within this content put a hyperlink to the updates feed RSS.
Why not add it to the entry summary as links?

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