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

[David G. <dav...@po...>]

Colin McCormack <co...@ch...> wrote:

>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

I tried browsing around for examples, but couldn't find anything useful...
Just blogs linking to other blogs and back around again.

While doing it, I thought..  Hey this is Tcl..  The more server-side work
I can do to simplify it into HTML 4.01 (or whatever), the less browser
requirements I need.

What started me thinking about RSS was the feed that Sophus does for the
latest virii info: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/infofeed/more.html

That feed is done in javascript on the client-side.  I think I want to try
a pure server-side way.  Mostly for fun, just to see how to do it.

Off the wiki RSS page, I'm getting this to do stuff with some edits:
http://neko.homeunix.net/~petterik/rss.cgi

>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.

I'm off and running.  Yes, it does help.  I'm set for now, but as yet I
don't understand the difference between the RSS versions (0.91, 2.0.1,
etc.) and what all the contents of RDF are and what it all means..

Fun stuff.
-- 
David Gravereaux <dav...@po...>
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