Issues with publishing an RSS feed - rss

Question

I'm having trouble publishing an RSS feed from my Umbraco site. I found this Umbraco.TV video and tried to follow the instructions there using an XSLT selector to select all nodes of a give type, like so:
umbraco.library.GetXmlAll()/node [#nodeTypeAlias='Alias]/node
As sugested here but that didn't work. Apparently the schema has changed or something. When this didn't work I looked for a plugin to do this kind of stuff and was amazed to find just 2 plugins, both of them with little-to-no documentation and neither seemed to work (first plugin, second plugin).
So once and for all, I'd like to have a definite answer - how does one publish an RSS feed in Umbraco?

Answer 1

Here's an XSLT that we use for News Items RSS (News Items are under a News Page). Let me know if that helps. I also have versions for Blogs.
<?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="/macro/RSSNoItems"/>
<xsl:variable name="RSSTitle" select="/macro/RSSTitle"/>
<xsl:variable name="SiteURL" select="concat('http://',umbraco.library:RequestServerVariables('HTTP_HOST'))"/>
<xsl:variable name="RSSDescription" select="/macro/RSSDescription"/>
<xsl:variable name="source" select="/macro/source"/>
<!-- 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="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($source)/* [#isDoc and string(umbracoNaviHide) != '1']">
<xsl:sort select="./newsDate" order="descending" />
<xsl:if test="position() = 1">
<xsl:value-of select="./newsDate" />
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:template match="/">
<!-- change the mimetype for the current page to xml -->
<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:ChangeContentType('text/xml')"/>
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?></xsl:text>
<rss version="2.0"
xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
>
<channel>
<title>
<xsl:value-of select="$RSSTitle"/>
</title>
<link>
<xsl:value-of select="$SiteURL"/>
</link>
<pubDate>
<xsl:value-of select="$pubDate"/>
</pubDate>
<generator>umbraco v4</generator>
<description>
<xsl:value-of select="$RSSDescription"/>
</description>
<language>en</language>
<xsl:for-each select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($source)/* [#isDoc and string(umbracoNaviHide) != '1']">
<xsl:sort select="./newsDate" order="descending" />
<xsl:if test="position() <= $RSSNoItems">
<xsl:call-template name="RSSitem">
<xsl:with-param name="node" select="current()"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</channel>
</rss>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="node">
<xsl:if test="position() <= $RSSNoItems">
<item>
<title>
<xsl:value-of select="#nodeName"/>
</title>
<link>
<xsl:value-of select="$SiteURL"/>
<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl(#id)"/>
</link>
<pubDate>
<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(./newsDate,'r')" />
</pubDate>
<guid>
<xsl:value-of select="$SiteURL"/>
<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl(#id)"/>
</guid>
<content:encoded>
<xsl:value-of select="concat('<![CDATA[ ', ./bodyText,']]>')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
</content:encoded>
</item>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="RSSitem">
<xsl:param name="node"/>
<item>
<title>
<xsl:value-of select="$node/#nodeName"/>
</title>
<link>
<xsl:value-of select="$SiteURL"/><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl($node/#id)"/>
</link>
<pubDate>
<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(./newsDate,'r')"/>
</pubDate>
<dc:creator><xsl:value-of select="#writerName"/></dc:creator>
<xsl:for-each select="umbraco.library:Split($node/categories, ',')/value">
<xsl:sort data-type="text" order="ascending"/>
<category>
<xsl:value-of select="current()"/>
</category>
</xsl:for-each>
<guid>
<xsl:value-of select="$SiteURL"/><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl($node/#id)"/>
</guid>
<description>
<xsl:value-of select="concat('<![CDATA[ ', $node/summary,']]>')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
</description>
<content:encoded>
<xsl:value-of select="concat('<![CDATA[ ', $node/bodyText,']]>')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
</content:encoded>
</item>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>