When displating an RSS feed with content under a Taxonomy term it includes a <category> tag witin the feed. This category tag has a link to the Taxonomy page (wich in my case I don't use - I build my own Views pages). Perhaps this category tag can be (optionally) excluded from the feed because when you don't use any of the original Taxonomy pages it just gets in the way.
This insertion of the <category> tag in the feed is instructed by the taxonomy.module. I have commented lines 1227 - 1232 out (yeah I hate core hacking too) and this does the trick.

Within the Views UI a RSS Row style of Fields (in stead of default Node) would be quite useful to display my own fields.

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merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented

I agree this would be useful; such a thing could be easily added by an external module. In the interests of expediency (people really wanted Views 2 6 months ago) I elected not to implement something like this myself because I am not confident that I know enough about RSS to do it right.

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merlinofchaos commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

The more I think on it, the more I feel certain that this needs to be handled by an external module that uses an RSS style in order to customize the code. Views will not implement this.

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johnpitcairn commented
Version: 6.x-2.0-rc1 » 6.x-2.x-dev

Thought I'd have a go at removing taxonomy terms. So, the usual way to reliably do stuff to a node in an RSS feed is by implementing a hook_nodeapi "rss item" operation, right? Otherwise there seems to be no way to tell whether the node we are operating on is about to be output as RSS or not.

However, unsetting the node taxonomy at that point has no effect - see this thread/post for more detail: http://drupal.org/node/174359#comment-3018132

Where/when does the row $item get its taxonomy categories, and isn't it reasonable that a module might expect to be able to implement hook_nodeapi "rss item" to alter this?

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johnpitcairn commented
Version: 6.x-2.x-dev » 6.x-2.0-rc1

Sorry for the interruption, I see it in taxonomy.module. It isn't a Views issue.

The other issue I mention in the linked post is however one I'd like to take up, I don't see why we shouldn't be able to alter title and link. I'll open a new issue.