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I developed an RSS feed following a tutorial and I think the .xml file itself is in order. However, I have two problems:

  1. When people click on the RSS link, it doesn't automatically load into their RSS readers
  2. For those that don't have an RSS reader, clicking the link results in a page full of code which is not very understandable

I was hoping that there might be some tips on how to easily realize this.

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This is a browser and user profile dependent issue in how the RSS link is going to react when clicked on.

If the user has the action set up to automatically load it into their feed reader of choice, it will do that.

If they don't, then it won't.

For those that just see a raw dump, it could be that they're using a browser that does not support RSS feeds and will dump out the XML as raw text. Google Chrome (at least still in version 18) without the use of extensions or add-ons will usually be the dump truck culprit here.

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Try to remove the <![CDATA[ and ]]> in the description tag.

I downloaded your xml, changed those lines, tested it on my server, and it worked in google's rss reader.