Middleman feed.xml.builder issues with iTunes tags

Question

I need to be able to include iTunes style XML tags in my feed.

I see that you can make custom tags with xml.<WHATEVER> but what I need is support for : tags like in a podcast feed. middleman build pukes when you try something like xml.itunes:summary and xml.itunes_summary (like some gems use) doesn't convert to the : format.

Are these kinds of XML tags not supported or am I using the wrong syntax?

Answer 1

The nice Middlemanapp twitter account directed me to the Builder project which is the code actually doing the work.

If your goal is to get the namespaced, iTunes-y output like:

<itunes:summary>The best damn thing ever.</itunes:summary>

You can do it one of two recommended ways. I recommend the second way though because the first method adds a bunch of extra whitespace as noted in this issue on Github.

xml.itunes :summary { xml.text! "The best damn thing ever." }

or

xml.tag!("itunes:summary", "The best damn thing ever.")