[opencms-dev] Content Syndication in OpenCMS

[Ratko Kovacina]

I believe that Matt thought about selecting inputs for publishing
outgoing RSS not incoming feeds. Is it correct understanding, Matt? 

I don't think you need to have any control over incoming RSS feeds. You
can either accept some news feed from a site or not. Everything that
other site syndicated comes to you. You may want to implement some
filtering capabilities to extract/remove text from the original incoming
XML file. However I am not sure about the usefulness of it at this point
nor how complex it would be to create something meaningful and easy to
use at the same time. What kind of filtering would that be? Based on
what?  

But for the outgoing RSS feed, the one you are syndicating out, you may
do something like you suggested in your email (top 10, or last 10, or
anything similar)or it might be different directory where only files
that would be syndicated are stored. It might be set as an option to
choose at the time of a file/news creation, for example. 

The other valid option is to have a tool that would extract from the
database some articles (based on time of publishing, or ...) and
automatically creates RSS file. There administrator could choose what
should be included in initial search (news/articles/etc) and easily
control what is being published (if one wants to do that). 

--
Ratko.


 


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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:35:45 +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 15 Jul 2003 11:23:17 -0600, M Butcher <mbutcher at grcomputing.net>
wrote:

>
> Tell me more about how you think it ought to work.

Isn't it a little ambitious ?
Well, here are my ideas on such a module.
In fact, as far as I understand the OpenCMS architecture, the news part
can 
be considered as the perfect holder for RSS syndication. In such a case,
a 
RSS feed, coming from outside, should be considered in the news part
like a 
folder, in which incoming data can not be modified, since filtering the 
received news is not, to my mind, interesting in such a process.

> Should there be a way
> to select which articles will be included in the RSS?

No. All the articles coming from a site have to be displayed. I think
the 
onl usable basis is the categories that may exist in RSS feeds.

> What I had figured
> (based on the way I set things up) is that the articles that would be
> syndicated would also all exist in the same directory -- in which
case,
> it is pretty easy to just assume that the top, say, 10 files in a
> directory are the ones that should be included in the RSS.
>
> But it sounds like your experience is different. How would you want to
> choose which headlines would be included in the RSS?

I do not choose. take a look at http://www.open- 
j2ee.org/opencms/opencms/fr/news.jsp
All the news coming from java.sun.com and java-channel are displayed,
since 
filtering them is quite a work, and is not that interesting for the user
(since RSS feed are used to agregate various information sources).
>
> Matt


-- 
Nicolas Delsaux
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