Re: [Tclhttpd-users] How to process an RSS feed in a template?

[Colin M. <co...@ch...>]

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 07:58, David Gravereaux wrote:
> Ok,  Say I want to do an http::getUrl on
> http://www.npr.org/rss/rss.php?topicId=2 while generating a page from a
> template on the server.  How do I make the XML into a formatted table all
> dynamically?  Yes, I've never done this before.

You know, since RSS is XML, and since XML can be formatted with CSS, you
can actually just slap a stylesheet into the RSS (as a PI <? ?>) and let
the browser do the formatting for you.  I saw this technique on the net,
but haven't tracked it closely, here's one apparent tutorial I dug up
just now: http://www.crystalflame.net/2003/12/rss_with_css.html

It can work really nicely, the pages under 
http://sharedtech.dyndns.org/~colin/treecl/docs/ are all pure XML with
CSS style.

Hope this helps.
-- 
Colin McCormack <co...@ch...>