On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 11:22 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: > >>>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. >
Nice. :) > Ross Can somebody add this to the issue tracker? Cheers and salu2 -- thorsten "Together we stand, divided we fall!" Hey you (Pink Floyd)
