You're reading me correctly, Nitin. Thanks everybody for your thoughtful contributions!
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:53 AM, nitin arora <nitar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I might be totally misunderstanding your example, but it seems you want to > rank items by appropriacy and not just date of publication. > In your example, the ranking depends on date of occurrence of event and not > publication date. Did I read that right? > > If that's the only criteria, than you might be able to have a parse-able > convention for notating date of event in your post title. > And then, while parsing the two feeds, rank them by date of event (nearest > to farthest away) prior to pumping out a single feed. > > Depending on what you have access to, it might be better to create the feed > from scratch by querying up your blog and event databases rather then > merging 2 pre-made feeds after-the-fact. > Now I'm just rambling. > > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Conal Tuohy <conal.tu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Kyle > > > > It's a question of merging the two feeds in order of <pubDate>? > > > > This is the kind of thing that Yahoo Pipes was for, before Yahoo > abandoned > > it. > > https://pipes.yahoo.com/ > > > > But there are alternatives around; perhaps the list in this article will > > provide some options you haven't seen already: > > http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/12-best-yahoo-pipes-alternatives-look/ > > > > If you can't find an existing web service offering, you could implement > the > > merger pretty easily in a custom XSLT. > > > > Good luck! > > > > Conal > > > > On 18 June 2015 at 06:53, Kyle Breneman <tomeconque...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I am looking for a solution to combine 2 RSS feeds into a single feed. > > One > > > is the feed for our library blog and another is the feed for our > > library's > > > events calendar. My concern is that posts from the two feeds are > > > appropriately interspersed. An example of what I mean: it would be > > > counterproductive for an August event, posted today, to have more > > > prominence than a previously posted event occurring tomorrow. > > > > > > Is this possible to accomplish? I've found scads of online sites that > > > offer to combine feeds, but they don't seem to ensure against this > > > problem. > > > > > > Kyle > > > > > > > > > -- > Nitin Arora > nitaro74 (at) gmail (dot) com > "Hope always, expect never." > > humaneguitarist.org > blog.humaneguitarist.org >