I am using Pelican 3.2 to generate a blog with RSS feeds. However, running the RSS feed through W3C's feed validator raises the following errors:
guid must be a full URL, unless isPermaLink attribute is false
One of the offending lines is
<guid>tag:foo,2013-08-07:bar.html</guid>
It appears that Pelican uses feedgenerator, but I couldn't find any relevant configuration options.
How should I fix this?
I believe the solution is to modify feedgenerator, changing:
handler.addQuickElement("guid", item['unique_id'])
...to:
handler.addQuickElement('guid isPermaLink="false"', item['unique_id'])
RSS already has a link attribute; feedgenerator currently assumes the unique_id is a URL and should not do so. I suspect this is the best way to address the problem.