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

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

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 10:28, David Gravereaux wrote:
> Colin McCormack <co...@ch...> wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 07:58, David Gravereaux wrote:

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

Yes.  Here's a content-ful example/tutorial - the result looks nice too,
I think he's just taking direct rss xml and throwing in a CSS style
sheet:
http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/xmltransformations.html

> 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.

> 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.

Yep, if you want to transform it on the server, then CSS won't help at
all.  Useful if you want to extract data from it (although I haven't
noticed that RSS feeds contain all that much data as such :)

> 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..

No idea.  I was thinking of generalising wikit over mkvfs into a blog
supporting form for tclhttpd, but beyond that I'm completely ignorant.
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Colin McCormack <co...@ch...>