Goal is to have an xml module on my home page that links to my latest blog posts feeds.  The problem, the feed on the home page isn't updating quickly after someone makes a post.  Some posts aren't even showing up.  Could I be linking to the wrong link?

I'm not sure if I'm doing this right, on my home page I have a latest blog posts .xml with the following settings:
Link Type: URL
Location:  http://www.mywebsite.com/Section/Blogs/tabid/57/rssid/0/Default.aspx
I grabbed the URL off the XML link for my blog.  Am I doing something wrong?

XSL stlye sheet
Here's my current style sheet:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:param name="TITLE"/>
<xsl:template match="rss">
  <xsl:for-each select="channel/item[position() &gt; 1]">
  <xsl:if test="position() &lt; 9">
    <br></br>
    <strong><a href="{link}" target="_main"><xsl:value-of select="title"/></a></strong>
    <br>
    </br>
        <em><xsl:value-of select="creator"/></em>
    <br></br>
  </xsl:if>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="description">
  <br>
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </br>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

The style sheet just pulls the post link in, how can I also pull the author or user name in?  When I use the author tag it pulls the user e-mail address in only.  Any hints are greatly appreciated.

dragonszz33 wrote Goal is to have an xml module on my home page that links to my latest blog posts feeds.  The problem, the feed on the home page isn't updating quickly after someone makes a post.  Some posts aren't even showing up.  Could I be linking to the wrong link?

No, it is by design. I don't know how it works for the blog module, I suggest that you post your question in that forum.

dragonszz33 wrote The style sheet just pulls the post link in, how can I also pull the author or user name in?  When I use the author tag it pulls the user e-mail address in only.  Any hints are greatly appreciated.

Again, this is up to the blog module, not to the xml module.

James Byles wrote I'm having a bit of a similar problem, where by the XML module can read from a file locally fine (transforms and all), but appears to be doing nothing when set to retrieve by URL. I thought this might be something to do with cache / scheduling initally, but it seemed odd how it doesn't retrieve by URL not even once.

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