The RSS specification requires the email address and the name of the author to be provided in the <author> element in the format "em...@domain.com (Name)".
http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#ltauthorgtSubelementOfLtitemgt Currently, only the author's name is provided. This is invalid RSS. Please find attached a patch fixing this. Regards, Arun Isaac.
From f5e2bf625cc14efd35dcd77340b4ab380b2f3dc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arun Isaac <arunis...@systemreboot.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 01:18:55 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ox-rss: Put email address in <author> element
* contrib/lisp/ox-rss.el (org-rss-headline): Put author's email
address in <author> element.
The RSS specification requires the email address and the name of the
author to be provided in the <author> element in the format
"em...@domain.com (Name)". Currently, only the author's name is
provided. This is invalid RSS.
---
contrib/lisp/ox-rss.el | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/lisp/ox-rss.el b/contrib/lisp/ox-rss.el
index 44ee8db..a3ba274 100644
--- a/contrib/lisp/ox-rss.el
+++ b/contrib/lisp/ox-rss.el
@@ -231,7 +231,8 @@ communication channel."
(if (> (org-export-get-relative-level headline info) 1)
(org-export-data-with-backend headline 'html info)
(unless (org-element-property :footnote-section-p headline)
- (let* ((author (and (plist-get info :with-author)
+ (let* ((email (org-export-data (plist-get info :email) info))
+ (author (and (plist-get info :with-author)
(let ((auth (plist-get info :author)))
(and auth (org-export-data auth info)))))
(htmlext (plist-get info :html-extension))
@@ -275,13 +276,13 @@ communication channel."
"<item>\n"
"<title>%s</title>\n"
"<link>%s</link>\n"
- "<author>%s</author>\n"
+ "<author>%s (%s)</author>\n"
"<guid isPermaLink=\"false\">%s</guid>\n"
"<pubDate>%s</pubDate>\n"
(org-rss-build-categories headline info) "\n"
"<description><![CDATA[%s]]></description>\n"
"</item>\n")
- title publink author guid pubdate contents))))))
+ title publink email author guid pubdate contents))))))
(defun org-rss-build-categories (headline info)
"Build categories for the RSS item."
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