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The RSS feed API purpose is to allow mobile applications to display a news entry point linked to an existing customer RSS feed. Mobile applications will be able to fetch news from this feed and display the information. This API is an alternative to the News module of gomanager, that allow organizers (festivals, trade-shows, venues. etc.) to directly input their news in gomanager. It may be used if a customer already have has an existing RSS feed and want wants to avoid duplicate work by inserting news manually in gomanager.

This document describes the interface the RSS feed need needs to follow.

How it works

Principles

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AttributeDescriptionType
titleItem’s title. Must be contained inside a CDATA section.text
descriptionShort description or sub-title subtitle for the item. Must be contained inside a CDATA section.text
imageItem’s image, will appear as thumbnail in the list of news articles. Maximum size is 500x500 pixelspx.text
content

Item’s body. Must be contained inside a CDATA section. Body can include HTML content (div, img, ...).

If the body includes an “object” tag for Flash content (Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo), it is highly recommended that you replace it with a link
(which contains either a video thumbnail and/or video title) redirecting to the video URL.
All Not all mobile devices (Android, iOS) are not capable of displaying Flash content.

text
pubDate

Publishing date for the item. Recommended format is EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z (http://userguide.icu-project.org/formatparse/datetime)

text
linkLink to the official website page hosting the item. Must be contained inside a CDATA section.text

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Code Block
languagexml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>


Any other character encoding may prevent the import service from working, or introduce visual glitches in mobile or web applications. Moreover, XML files must be well-formated formatted according to the W3C rules. Please use the W3C validator (https://validator.w3.org/feed/) to validate your XML files if any parsing error occur. Finally, all texts should be contained in CDATA sections and should not have their HTML escaped before being put in the CDATA section.

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