RSS not pulling in any info

Hi,

I have followed the guidance in the manual for RSS, which seems fairly straight forward.

However I am not pulling any info into the xml page.

it appears to stop at my site name withing Firefox and doesn't display anything in IE.

My code is....

<?php header('Content-type: application/xml; charset=utf-8'); ?><?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'; ?>
<?php
require_once "/full/path/to/httpdocs/cms/lib/viewer_functions.php";

list($news1Records, $news1MetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'news1',
'limit' => '15',
));

?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>mydomain.Com</title>
<link>http://www.mydomain.com</link>
<description>my description for the site</description>
<pubDate><?php echo date('r'); ?></pubDate>
<language>en-us</language>


<?php foreach ($news1Records as $record): ?>
<item>
<title><?php echo htmlspecialchars($record['title']) ?></title>
<link>http://www.mydomain.com/<?php echo $record['_link'] ?></link>
<description><?php echo htmlspecialchars($record['summary']); ?></description>
<pubDate><?php echo date("r", strtotime($record['date'])) ?></pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.mydomain.com/<?php echo $record['_link'] ?></guid>
</item>
<?php endforeach ?>

</channel>
</rss>

I did notice that the code calls on the field 'summary' - should this not be content? Anyway I tried 'content' instead of 'summary', without joy. Assuming it should be content, how can I limit the number of words being pulled into the RSS feed - I do not really wish to put all the words into the feed.

Any ideas as to what is going wrong? Still at the testing stage, but I have three or four dummy news items up and working on the site.

Thanks.