[opencms-dev] Content Syndication in OpenCMS

[Ratko Kovacina]

Thanks for the replies and suggestions. 

Nicolas, the RSS library/toolkit you were using was RSS4j or it was
something else? And your quick solutions include out- and inbound
syndication, right? 

However, I was rather thinking about some kind of inherent support for
content syndication within the OpenCMS solution. Probably support for
RSS compatible would be the best one to choose presently.  

Basically, even though it might be an easy thing to do,  I believe
having something like a module would be better solution. Since a
syndication becoming 'default' feature of a CMS, I think the community
should consider having this functionality somehow integrated into
OpenCMS as well. Again, having support for the syndication will
definitely make OpenCms more valuable as a CMS solution in general...

I am not sure what it should include but inbound and outbound RSS
compatibility, template for different sources etc. are the obvious ones
to begin with ... Matt,  would you have some more ideas/suggestions
about what else should be included, what functionalities to support
etc?   

Cheers,
Ratko.  
   


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> 
> > Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:06:22 +0200
> > To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
> > Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] Content Syndication in OpenCMS
> > From: Nicolas Delsaux <nicolas.delsaux at online.fr>
> > Reply-To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
> > 
> > On 10 Jul 2003 22:27:56 -0600, M Butcher <mbutcher at grcomputing.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > What kind of content syndication? I initially planned on writing an RSS
> > > module until I realized that it was so easy to do that it didn't really
> > > warrant a module (just a JSP with a few clever tricks with the
> > > navigation code). In fact, it should be pretty easy to do just about any
> > > kind of XML-based content syndication over HTTP or HTTPS. I'd be more
> > > than happy to brainstorm with you on or off the list, as it is a feature
> > > I'm very interested in.
> > 
> > Strangely, I also cast a glance at such a feature for the site I'm working 
> > on, and here is the solution I used, for thye faster development.
> >  - First, a good RDF/RSS library. I used the one given at ChurchillObjects, 
> > which provides document parsing as well as document construction.
> >  - Second, a Java class (it may be integrated in a jsp) that process the 
> > java objects for producing the good HTML fragment.
> >  - And finally, A jsp that call the specific Java class.
> > 
> > At all, it took me half a day to compile, package and deploy the whole in 
> > OpenCMS.
> > Not a hard work, isn't it ?
> > 
> > >
> > > Matt
> > 
> > On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 21:06, Ratko Kovacina wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I have seen that a question about Content Syndication in the OpenCMS
> > > was posted some time ago, but there has been no answer. I could not
> > > have found any other reference to the subject on the OpenCMS site
> > > either. 
> > > 
> > > Are there any activities/development within the OpenCMS community
> > > regarding this topic? Has it been seen as some valuable/desirable
> > > feature of the solution or not and it's been left for some future
> > > releases? Could anybody provide any more information about it?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ratko.
> > > 

-- 
Ratko Kovacina <ratko at mosili.com>
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