discuss: Re: revival of the weekly news - RSS feed and XSLT
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Re: revival of the weekly news - RSS feed and XSLT
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Date:
7 May 2003 21:37:33 -0000
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Hello Machtelt,
The whole idea behind RSS feed is that the users always get the latest
news.
Usually RSS feeds are consumed by portal containers. When somebody accesses
that container, the RSS feed from the master site is retrieved.
For e.g.
http://www.seagate.cc:8080/cocoon/mount/rssfeed/http://www.xmlhack.com/rss.php
here the cocoon portal consumes the RSS from xmlhack, as soon as the
readers clicks on the above link.
However some portal servers, allow RSS feed to be cached, so it does not
change, the RSS feed is not retrieved from the master server.
There are other portal server that retrieved an RSS feed on
hourly/daily/weekly.... basis.
The bandwidth is no a big issue, since RSS feeds are very small in size.
If you want we can start the testing on my server, since I have lots of
free bandwidth available.
In Peace,
Saqib Ali
http://www.seagate.com/cheetah/
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On Thu, 1 May 2003 ####@####.#### wrote:
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> David Lawyer said:
> > ICBW but I just don't think that our news is all that important to need
> > a rss feed.
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> I personally think the New HOWTOs and Updated HOWTOs make good categories
> for News Syndication. Just like freshmeat has RSS feed for new software
> releases, I think TLDP should have one for the new/updated documentation
> releases.
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> Plus it is easy to get a RSS feed out of DocBook XML file of the Weekly
> Newsletter. And XSLT to parse the Newsletter to create and RSS feed will
do
> the job.
It seems simple enough, but I'd like to have an idea about the amount of
bandwidth this will be consuming. As I understand it, this would be just
a special kind of link to which only certain sites connect from time to
time - being once a week in this case. Is this assumption correct? I'm
sorry but I didn't have time yet to get but a basic idea of the whole
thing.
How do you go at this? Can TLDP give me a test account, or shall I set it
up on my own servers first, for testing?
I remember having thought that I wouldn't have time to do it myself, but
I've changed my mind :)
Tille.
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