Atom.xml thinks it's RSS?

[Sam Ruby]

Pat Patterson wrote:
> I noticed recently that the atom output seems to think it's rss - from 
> Planet Identity (http://planetidentity.org):
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <feed [...]/>
>   [...]
>   <id>http://planetidentity.org/rss20.xml</id>
>   <link href="http://planetidentity.org/rss20.xml" rel="self" 
> type="application/rss+xml"/>
>   [...]
> 
> This isn't a big deal - about the only thing that notices is Feed 
> Validator - 
> http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3a%2f%2fplanetidentity.org%2fatom2.xml (I 
> copied atom.xml to atom2.xml as I have an Apache RewriteRule to redirect 
> atom.xml to FeedBurner).
> 
> I've looked in atom.xml.xslt and can't see anything obvious in there. 
> Unfortunately, my Python and XSLT is not  good enough to come up with a 
> fix - any chance that someone could take a look???

What's going on here is that Venus computes a single "id" and preferred 
"self" link for all feeds produced.  Especially since this planet is 
using feed burner, there really is no reason to produce multiple feeds 
in different formats.

The way that Venus decides which format is "preferred" is simpleminded: 
it takes the first one listed in your configuration.  Now, with "themes" 
and all that, determining which one is "first" may be unclear.  But if 
you remove all but the one feed template that you care about, this 
problem should clear itself up.

If this turns out to be a problem, let me know and I can add a 
configuration option to allow you to select your preferred feed.

- Sam Ruby