RSS feed showing author name

[RolandD]

Hello Sören,

A request to add the authors name to the RSS feeds. When viewing the Rss Feed in my RSS Reader I would like to see the name of the person who wrote that message. This also helps in finding messages.

[RolandD]

Here is some more info. The only way to get to show the author is by specifying

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type=atom in the feeds url. Have tried it in 4 different RSS readers and all behave the same. Another user on the IRC room, confirmed he does not see the authors name in RSS either.

This is what rss produces:

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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Re: CSV upload failed -&gt;Invalid argument]]></title>
<link>http://virtuemart.net/index.php?option=com_smf&amp;Itemid=71&amp;topic=23665.msg62615#msg62615</link>
<description><![CDATA[Will do. I'm using IE version 6, but experience the same problem in Firefox.]]></description>
<category><![CDATA[CSV Import / Export]]></category>
<comments>http://virtuemart.net/index.php?option=com_smf&amp;Itemid=71&amp;action=post;topic=23665.0</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:27:16 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://virtuemart.net/index.php?option=com_smf&amp;Itemid=71&amp;topic=23665.msg62615#msg62615</guid>
</item>

This is what atom produces:

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<entry>
<title><![CDATA[Re: Shipping Methods]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://virtuemart.net/index.php?option=com_smf&amp;Itemid=71&amp;topic=14249.msg62729#msg62729" />
<summary type="html">

<![CDATA[How do we setup mixed products, some downloadable, some that reequire standard post?<br />]]>
</summary>
<author>
<name>dudester</name>
</author>
<created>2006-12-06T21:37:35Z</created>
<issued>2006-12-06T21:37:35Z</issued>
<modified>2006-12-06T21:37:35Z</modified>
<id>http://virtuemart.net/index.php?option=com_smf&amp;Itemid=71&amp;topic=14249.msg62729#msg62729</id>
</entry>

See the difference and as to why atom does show the author. Still I consider the rss to have a bug as it does not show the author. Used Firefox to see the contents of the RSS feeds. When using atom to see the feeds, html code like " is not substituted :-(