How do I create feeds from articles

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Our first Drupal based site is almost ready to go live. So far, Drupal has been a very powerful and fun environment to work in. We've started with the Open Publish distribution of Drupal, and have made a number of customizations to meet our needs, primarily in creating a sub-theme based on the Open Publish theme, and adding, removing, and configuration of modules. And of course blocks, views, and contexts.

One thing I'm having problems with is creating syndication feeds. My requirements are to create a number of feeds, preferably ATOM feeds, from article content type. We've added a set of checkboxes to the article content type, then we want to build a feed for each of these checkboxes. For example, we have a checkbox for livestock, one for youth, etc.

I can easily use a view to select the nodes I want for each feed. However, I'm struggling trying to get the feeds created and validated using http://feedvalidator.org/. I can get real close using the Views XML module (part of Views Datasource - http://drupal.org/project/views_datasource).

The three things I'm having trouble validating are the id of the feed, the updated date for the feed, and the id of each of the articles. Also having trouble with the link of each article pointing back to the feed's url, rather than the URL of each article. Here is a link to the feed validator results page: http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdrupal-test-02.exnet...

I have a couple questions:
1) Do you have any suggestions on how to make these feeds validate properly?
2) Is there some other modules I should be looking at in order to build the feeds?

Any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated.
Brian Webster

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I solved this by modifying the Atom theme that came with the views_datasource modules. Once I found the correct place, it was some pretty easy modifications. I'm now making about 14 different Atom feeds from our article pages for the different topics of information we're publishing.

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