Paul Bolger wrote:
Sounds to me like Forrest should be generating an RSS feed of these news
items. You could then leverage the feeder plugin for your home page
headlines, whilst you would also be able to provide feeds for external
sites.
Since RSS is a more widely adopted standard for this kind of thing I'd
recommend using creating a plugin that built the RSS feed rather than
the custom navigation.
This is getting away from my initial proposal somewhat, which was more
of a content indexer. Don't take that as too negative though: I'm
fully prepared to be convinced on this and I'm interested in being
part of the development process. I must admit that I'm a little hazy
about how RSS would work in this context.
RSS is a standard format fur such things. It lists content of a
particular type in a format that can be read by a large number of
clients, not just Forrest.
what you're talking about but I'm thinking you could do something like
this:
o) Add a metadata element called "expires":
<meta name="expires" value="1/11/2006"/>
other meta-data, such as keywords, summary and publication date could
also be used to good effect. But one at a time is a good idea ;-)
The only problem with 'expires' is that - this is a real world
situation - everyone goes off on holidays and the news items all get
automatically killed.
No news isn't good news if you have a space for
four items on your page! I'd prefer "the last four stories published".
So don't use it in your use case.
The idea would be create an RSS feed of all items, then use the feeder
plugin (with modifications) to return the top four items.
If someone wants the expires meta-data then they can use it within the
RSS generation, everything is optional ;-)
I'm interested in how one would go about adding the extra metadata
element. Is it possible for the source doc to have an appended, or
extra, DTD with custom elements?
Our DTD's support meta-data elements, however, we do not (yet) handle
meta-data well within Forrest.
Ross
