Re: [Firebird-website] rss feed for developer's journal

[Helen B. <he...@fi...>]

At 11:59 PM 27/03/2006, you wrote:
>I try to feed my google.com/reader with
>developer's rss but it doesn't work with this url
>http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devjournal&id=print_rss&no_rss=1
>What is needed is pure xml without html tags , so other readers can work
>with

We can't do it until we migrate the site off Sourceforge.  Basically, 
clicking that icon will generate the XML "under the hood";  what you 
see on the output screen is just that - output, that you can copy and 
paste somewhere.

We have no capability to write any files to disk dynamically - that 
capability was removed from public projects 18 months ago.  So what 
we currently have is but a stopgap, until we move sites.

However, the DJ page *is* RSS-enabled (study the page source), so you 
don't need to click the button to get your active bookmarks in 
Firefox and other browsers that have integrated aggregation.  Just 
click the little orange button on the Firefox display and the browser 
itself will take you through the steps.

The crawler programs don't need to click any buttons.  As you see in 
the page source, they call a chunk named rss.php, that generates the 
XML they need. The button click also calls this chunk after it has 
printed the XML to the screen.

If you know something about how to generate and publish a well-formed 
XML file dynamically under conditions where one can't write anything, 
we'd be very glad to hear about it.  The only alternative we see at 
the moment would be to generate such a file off-line and upload it 
via SFTP, as we do with our other web objects.  This is totally 
self-defeating, of course, and we're not going to do it.

Helen