To verify the format of an RSS feed

  1. Go to the external RSS feed page, such as: http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032091/device/rss/rss.xml.

  2. View the HTML source code for the page. For instance, right-click anywhere on the page and select View Source. The format is generally specified within the first few lines of code. In the following example, the format is version 2.0 (RSS2):

    3. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media=http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/>

  3. In the RSS Feed Display component dialog, select a display template corresponding to the format of the external feed -- in this example, you would select a display template specifically configured for the RSS2 format. (Your Website Administrator creates all RSS-feed-specific display templates.)