Hello Everyone and thanks for your help in advance. I am writing my first RSS feed and am encountering problems with creating an image link. I think I have the xml formatted correctly, yet, when I open the page in IE 7.0, no image or reference appears. Here is the xml I have generated:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <rss version="2.0">
- <channel>
<title>DianaMcLaughlin.com - Official Website of Diana McLaughlin, M.D., M.B.A.</title>
<link>http://www.dianamclaughlin.com/</link>
<description>Official Website of Diana McLaughlin, M.D., M.B.A.</description>
<copyright>Copyright 2007. All rights reserved.</copyright>
- <item>
<title>Tenderly Loving Children</title>
<link>http://www.dianamclaughlin.com/Default.aspx?ArticleID=5</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:32:33 EST</pubDate>
- <image>
<url>http://www.dianamclaughlin.com/images/diana_staff_HighRes.jpg</url>
<title>Photo of Diana McLaughlin, M.D., M.B.A.</title>
<link>http://www.dianamclaughlin.com/Default.aspx?ArticleID=5</link>
</image>
<ttl>15</ttl>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
The actual page can be located at
http://www.dianamclaughlin.com/rss.aspx
The code I am using to generate this is:
xtw.WriteStartElement("image")
xtw.WriteStartElement("url")
xtw.WriteString("http://www.dianamclaughlin.com/images/diana_staff_HighRes.jpg")
xtw.WriteEndElement()
'xtw.WriteString(Chr(60) & "img src=http://www.dianamclaughlin.com/images/diana_staff_HighRes.jpg /" & Chr(62))
xtw.WriteStartElement("title")
xtw.WriteString("Photo of Diana McLaughlin, M.D., M.B.A.")
xtw.WriteEndElement()
xtw.WriteStartElement("link")
'xtw.WriteString(ArticleURL)
xtw.WriteString("http://www.dianamclaughlin.com/images/diana_staff_HighRes.jpg")
xtw.WriteEndElement()
xtw.WriteEndElement()
Any help on this topic would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.