On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 09:35 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote:
Thorsten Scherler wrote:
On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 23:15 -0700, Jason End wrote:
I'm using MovableType to generate a news page for my site. Forrest then sucks the RSS into a weblog.xml file through a sitemap.xmap entry, as per the example on the Forrest site.
Now I'd like that page to my main page. Ideally my
main index.xml would contain the RSS feeds, but I
don't see a way of limiting a sitemap directive to a
single instance of a file.
The other option is to redirect index.html to
weblog.html but I'm running Forrest with Jetty and
can't see how to make redirects.
Any ideas?
The combination of view/viewHelper plugin is the solution we came up
with to solve this problem.
Hang on there. This is a much simpler use case if I understand correctly. The index page *is* the RSS feed in this case, the solution for that is the feeder plugin, so there is no need for the alpha view/viewHelper.
Yeah your are right. view/vH is only needed if the rss feed should be
embedded in the overall design (and the feeder plugin needs to be
installed). Like having a document and a small box where links to feeds
are (the feed). The feeder will allow you having it on a document basis
(instead of your document content for this page).
...but I guess the question remains how localhost:8888/feeder/index.html becomes localhost:8888/index.html
I *thought it was in the docs. It's not, because I haven't implemented it yet - it's been sitting in my mind for so long I thought I'd already done it...
Currently the feeder plugin works by having a URL that contains "feeder". This is bad as it restricts the URL space required. It needs to be modified to work with any file of any name. Here's what needs to be done:
- Create a DTD for the feedDescriptor file (see plugin docs)
- add a sourcetype resolver to the plugin sitemap to look for files with this DTD (a nice clean example of how this is done can be seen in the simplified-docbook plugin)
Then we name the feed descriptor file index.xml and Forrest will do the rest automagically.
Ross
