You can edit rss or atom skin and add something like this

if( !empty($Item->excerpt) )
{
    show excerpt
}

For example in rss2 skin edit the followig on line 108

if( $feed_content == 'excerpt' && !empty($Item->excerpt) )

and you should also edit lines 145,150 to just else

}
else
{

It's not tested, but should work ;)

I think that it should work :)

Ok, I've done almost the same thing with my RSS2 feed and it seems to work.

Actual changes made:
Your first change (line 108) made as suggested.

if( $feed_content == 'excerpt' ) 

becomes

if( $feed_content == 'excerpt' && !empty($Item->excerpt) ) 

On your second change I did it slightly differently. Mine was a few lines further down from 145 (think I'd made changes to this skin before). I'm sure your way would work fine too, I just wanted to make it more explicit for what I want it to do.

elseif( $feed_content == 'normal'
							|| $feed_content == 'full' )

becomes

elseif( $feed_content == 'normal'
		|| $feed_content == 'full'
		|| ($feed_content == 'excerpt' && empty($Item->excerpt)) )

Also changed the setting in Blog Settings -> Features to Excerpt (now that it falls back instead of posting empty excerpts that's fine).

Result is at: http://www.everythingulster.com/blog/index.php?tempskin=_rss2

OK, sorry, that's not exactly what I wanted.

Because of the way the code's written (not a mistake/bug, just a consequence): if there's no excerpt that solution gives the full post, not the "standard" or "normal" or whatever its called where it stops at the "Read More" link.

To solve that find the 2 lines just below the second change that say:

if( $feed_content == 'normal' )

and change them both to

if( $feed_content == 'normal' || ($feed_content == 'excerpt' && empty($Item->excerpt)))

Your feed returned a error 500 right now!

<?php
$feed_content = ( empty( $Item->excerpt ) ? 'normal' : 'excerpt' );
?>

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Walter wrote:

Your feed returned a error 500 right now!

Works fine for me :\

¥åßßå wrote:

<?php
$feed_content = ( empty( $Item->excerpt ) ? 'normal' : 'excerpt' );
?>

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That would've made sense too, obviously! Where's the "D'oh!" smiley when you need it? Thanks!

No worries ;)

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