The External Data Provider also gives alternative feeds in commonly used formats. These are useful if you have external readers or a script to read them already. These feeds are available in XML, RSS .91, RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 so it should fit a wide variety of readers. The system defaults to RSS 2.0 so if you leave off the type, that is what you get. RSS 1.0 and 2.0 feeds will include HTML markup and attachments unless [i]&nohtml=1 is added to the feed url. Many aggregates support HTML markup and so posts will appear close to how they would appear when viewed on the forum.
If vBulletin Options|External Data Provider|Enable Podcasting[/process] is enabled, the first attachment of the post will also be returned within an [def]<enclosure>[def] tag. The enclosre tag is used within iTunes and other RSS aggregates to allow files to be downloaded from the feed.
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