Commit 70037f80 authored by Malcolm Tredinnick's avatar Malcolm Tredinnick
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Updated syndication framework porting notes. 

This is based on some experience porting older code and trying to work
out why my feed content was empty.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@12742 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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docs/releases/1.2.txt

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If you currently use the ``feed()`` view, the ``LatestEntries`` class

would not need to be modified apart from subclassing the new

:class:`~django.contrib.syndication.views.Feed` class.

If you currently use the ``feed()`` view, the ``LatestEntries`` class would

often not need to be modified apart from subclassing the new

:class:`~django.contrib.syndication.views.Feed` class. The exception is if

Django was automatically working out the name of the template to use to render

the feed's description and title elements (if you were not specifying the

``title_template`` and ``description_template`` attributes). You should ensure

that you always specify ``title_template`` and ``description_template``

attributes, or provide ``item_title()`` and ``item_description()`` methods.



However, ``LatestEntriesByCategory`` uses the ``get_object()`` method

with the ``bits`` argument to specify a specific category to show. In