[Xymon] 4.3.20 "description" tag in rss is now empty

[John Thurston]

On 5/20/2015 1:24 PM, John Thurston wrote:
> Under 4.3.17, my rss files contained things like:
>>   <item>
>>     <title>xymonj.state.ak.us (xymond)</title>
>>
>> <link>http://xymon.state.ak.us/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=xymonj.state.ak.us&SERVICE=xymond</link>
>>
>> <description>yellow</description>
>
> Under 4.3.20, my rss files contain similar lines _except_ the last:
>> <description></description>
>
> I'm trying to figure out why. Had I customized my rss feed somehow on
> 4.3.17 and the customization was lost?

I think this may be related to a change in loaddata.c where a 
xymondboard command used to request the field "line1" and now does not. 
I base this on the footprints that one of the "description" tags used to be:
<description>yellow SSL Certificate Expiration:</description>
and the first line reported by my ext script on that client was:
"yellow SSL Certificate Expiration:"

I see a reference to this in http://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/7647/ 
"don't pull line1 in xymondboard, as it's not currently used"
how was it determined that it wasn't used?

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