In Hugo, the RSS internal template produces feed with entire article content. Should it?

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I’m wondering whether the internal RSS template should cap the rss.channel.item.description should contain the entire article or not. By default it does. I just noticed that when I looked my website’s generated RSS feed of articles.

I’m unfamiliar w/ the RSS standard, but it seems like too much text and also makes the RSS feed size ridiculously large. I think it should just contain a summary, otherwise, sites with hundreds of long articles could very well produce a really large feed, taking up bandwidth and resources…

Does this even matter? I am sure that it’s not the first time anyone has ideated this?

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@Hash_Borgir This has definitely come up before. See this PR and the associated conversations and comments:

https://github.com/spf13/hugo/pull/3219

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You cal make a own rss template in layouts/_default/rss.xml

Here my version - truncating .Content and build the guid by md5.
This is now pure RSS.

<rss version="2.0" >
  <channel>
    <title>{{ with .Title }}{{.}} auf {{ end }}{{ .Site.Title }}</title>
    <link>{{"feed.xml" | urlize}}</link>
    <description>{{.Title}} auf {{ .Site.Title }}</description>
    <generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator>
    {{ with .Site.LanguageCode }}<language>{{.}}</language>{{end}}
    {{ with .Site.Author.name }}<managingEditor>{{.}}{{ with $.Site.Author.email }} ({{.}}){{end}}</managingEditor>{{end}}
    {{ with .Site.Author.name }}<webMaster>{{.}}{{ with $.Site.Author.email }} ({{.}}){{end}}</webMaster>{{end}}
    {{ with .Site.Copyright }}<copyright>{{.}}</copyright>{{end}}
    {{ if not .Lastmod.IsZero }}<lastBuildDate>{{ .Lastmod.Format "Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 CET" | safeHTML }}</lastBuildDate>{{ end }}
    
    {{ range first 25 .Data.Pages }}
    <item>
      <title>{{ .Title }}</title>
      <link>{{ .Permalink }}</link>
      <pubDate>{{ .Date.Format "Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 CET" | safeHTML }}</pubDate>
      {{ with .Site.Author.name }}<author>{{.}}{{ with $.Site.Author.email }} ({{.}}){{end}}</author>{{end}}
      <guid>{{ md5 .Content }}</guid>
      <description>{{ .Content | truncate 240 | html }}</description>
    </item>
    {{ end }}
  </channel>
</rss>
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Hi

.Date.Format "Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 CET"

doesn’t seem W3C valid.

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checked it

<pubDate>{{ $date.Format site.Params.dateFormatRFC822Z | safeHTML }}</pubDate>

with

dateFormatRFC822Z = "02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 UT"

is validated