Hi Ben,

I tried all and got 'URL not defined for this feed'. I tried to URLencode the field and

Then I URLencoded query string of the URL and got 'feed added', but there was no feed to view.

Upon looking at the feed, the URL that Moodle seemed to have stored was actually a link to the original search page.

ORIGINAL URL:

ENCODED URL:
http://eprints.wit.ie/cgi/search/advanced/export_witeprints_RSS2.xml?exp%3D0%7C1%7C-date%2Fcreators_name%2Ftitle%7Carchive%7C-%7Cdivisions%3Adivisions%3AALL%3AEQ%3Abus%7C-%7Ceprint_status%3Aeprint_status%3AALL%3AEQ%3Aarchive%7Cmetadata_visibility%3Ametadata_visibility%3AALL%3AEX%3Ashow%26output%3DRSS2%26_action_export%3D1%26screen%3DPublic%3A%3AEPrintSearch

Could I put it through FeedBurner, I wonder?

Well, the Feedburner feed is:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/WitRepositorySchoolOfBusiness

But, it doesn't work either. I activated something called 'smartfeed', which claimed to increase compatibility - made no difference.

The validator link from Moodle says that the feed is valid, but that there is an 'implausable date'. I think the time is an hour wrong, but that shouldn't matter.

David.

2008/10/8 Ben Wheeler <b.wheeler@ulcc.ac.uk>

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On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 08:15:53PM +0100, David Kane wrote:
> Has anyone tried to get Moodle to consume an EPrints RSS feed?
> I have had trouble with this and was wondering if anyone had been down this
> path before?

Are you using 1.0 or 2.0? The 1.0 output from EPrints (at least 3.0.x)
doesn't validate so that might cause problems.

Ben

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