Cannot activate SharePoint Publishing Feature

Question

despite placing the following code in my onet.xml, the publishing feature is not activated.

<Feature ID="A392DA98-270B-4e85-9769-04C0FDE267AA">
<!-- PublishingPrerequisites -->
</Feature>

<Feature ID="7C637B23-06C4-472d-9A9A-7C175762C5C4">
<!-- ViewFormPagesLockDown -->
</Feature>

<Feature ID="AEBC918D-B20F-4a11-A1DB-9ED84D79C87E">
<!-- PublishingResources -->
<Properties xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
<Property Key="AllowRss" Value="false"/>
<Property Key="SimplePublishing" Value="false" />
</Properties>
</Feature>

<!-- Publishing Infrastructure Feature --> 
<Feature ID="F6924D36-2FA8-4f0b-B16D-06B7250180FA"/>

I need this feature to be activated, because I have a feature-receiver which executes some code dependent on the feature.

Answer 1

I believe you are experiencing a combination of issues:

• the actual Publishing features are many for each Web, which must all properly be activated, as Web features (is this the section where you have the GUID added?). But the only one you need to actually add in the WebFeatures is SharePoint Server Publishing (94c94ca6-b32f-4da9-a9e3-1f3d343d7ecb) as the others are hidden, and normally activated automatically.
• You need to ensure that in the SiteFeatures you have the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure (f6924d36-2fa8-4f0b-b16d-06b7250180fa) - do you have this here?