RE: [ cf-dev ] XML/RSS Feed

[Lovelock, Richard J]

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OK Rich thanks. Your tutorial link is cfmx related

 

we are on cf5 - so is most of the information redundant for me really?

 

we may be going to cfmx at some point in near future - is this going to make things easier in terms of playing with XML and is it worth me advising to wait for an upgrade before going much further with this?

 

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                Richard Lovelock,
                Senior Application Analyst.

Westminster City Council - Web Support
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
Southbank
95 Wandsworth Road
London
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Wild [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 23 March 2004 14:47
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] XML/RSS Feed

I don't know about commonspot, but your feed subscribers will have to do *something* to the feed, othwerwise they've just got a flat xml packet on their hands.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lovelock, Richard J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 23 March 2004 14:39
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] XML/RSS Feed

OK thanks Rich/Ellis

 

I am still not really too clear how this would be done in terms of making the necessary data accessible

 

the data is stored in a whole host of different tables and Commonspot uses a load of moderately complex queries on all the pages to retrieve all the correct data for display (all of which kind of happens behind the scenes as you would expect from a CMS)

 

would I be feeding data straight from a DB or is it possible to pull data from the final rendered HTML code ?

 

this is all a bit foggy still

 

also, does whoever is going to be receiving any RSS feed have to be involved in any dev work to enable them to receive and process whatever we are supplying to them?

 

sorry if none of this is making too much sense!!

 

_______________________________________________________

*  Regards,
                Richard Lovelock,
                Senior Application Analyst.

Westminster City Council - Web Support
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
Southbank
95 Wandsworth Road
London
SW8 2HG

(     0870 906 7482
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Wild [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 23 March 2004 12:08
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] XML/RSS Feed

well, my site, funjunkie has several feeds including RSS 0.91 and 2.0 (and wddx). Its very very easy to create a feed - they're just textfiles, so you just copy the format and change what you need.

 

I've created a coldfusion template that writes the rss page and then scheduled it to create the raw news.rss files so that a CF page isn't run everytime someone grabs the feed, which with modern aggregators happens quite a lot.

 

Feel free to nick the format, follow http://www.funjunkie.co.uk and then the feeds are at the bottom of the page. The copy for each post item has its HTML formatting removed in my versions.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lovelock, Richard J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 23 March 2004 11:55
To: 'cflist'
Subject: [ cf-dev ] XML/RSS Feed

Hi guys

 

I've had a new call come through. Details are as follows:

 

- Investigate possibility of exporting website data as an XML/RSS feed to other (selected) websites

 

Not too sure of the finer details. We are on CF5 and use Paperthin's CF based content management system where all data is stored in Commonspot's defined DB tables.

 

I have absolutely no exposure to XML or RSS and need some advice if this sort of thing is possible and where to start looking? Have read a couple of intros to XML/RSS to get a bit of backgound but as I say, I am completely new.

 

Would greatly appreciate any advice you can give me.

_______________________________________________________

*  Regards,
                Richard Lovelock,
                Senior Application Analyst.

Westminster City Council - Web Support
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
Southbank
95 Wandsworth Road
London
SW8 2HG

(     0870 906 7482
 
_______________________________________________________

 

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