The RSS feeds were being accessed as the TWikiGuest user, which in our system has the COVER = customer setting to disable edit toolbars etc.

However, this pushes the "customer" skin in front of the RSS skin and screws up the XML output.

I fixed it using the following workaround (look for RSS skin anywhere in the skin path and override the skin), but I doubt it is the ideal solution.

Index: View.pm
===================================================================
--- View.pm   (revision 99)
+++ View.pm   (revision 100)

@@ -165,6 +164,10 @@
     my $template = $query->param( 'template' ) ||
       $session->{prefs}->getPreferencesValue( 'VIEW_TEMPLATE' ) ||
         'view';
+    
+    # Remove any covers if using an rss skin
+    if ($skin =~ /\brss/){
+   $skin = 'rss';}
 
     my $tmpl = $session->{templates}->readTemplate( $template, $skin );
     if( !$tmpl && $template ne 'view' ) {

This probably needs a re-validation, in light of recent skin and template path improvements.

-- SP

Can not reproduce, no feedback for 9+ months, closing.

-- TWiki:Main.SteffenPoulsen - 17 Sep 2007