IMHO news-sourced-from-RSS would best be implemented on the server side, as an Aspect. It you had an Aspect that converted RSS (or Atom) feeds into DRI then you could plug it in as a replacement to news.xml, and still use any of the existing themes etc to render it.
Coincidentally I've been doing voluntary work in the last week on a website which is an aggregation of blogs. I used Sun's "Rome" library which can parse and convert feeds of various formats (because there are about 1 zillion different flavours of RSS at least). I used Rome to parse and aggregate feeds and convert the result to Atom 1.0. Then I wrote an XSLT to render that as HTML. I found Rome is still not quite production quality (I used it anyway and just fixed the few bugs I found). If you're considering processing feeds in XSLT, one thing which is worth noting upfront is that sometimes feeds will contain quoted html markup, e.g. <div style="font-weight: bold"><p>Blah blah</p><div> Usually in XSLT you'd handle that with disable-output-escaping, but that's not going to produce well-formed DRI XML is it? (NB d-o-e simply has no effect in Cocoon). So it might be necessary to wheel in the HTMLGenerator to convert each such snippet into well-formed XHTML, and from there into DRI. Cheers Con On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 07:38 -0700, Mark Diggory wrote: > I know where he's going with it though... > > Are there any generic XSLT libraries for rendering RSS feeds? Maybe > the News.xmls should just be rss feeds, not DRI? > > -Mark > > On Mar 19, 2008, at 6:59 AM, Scott Phillips wrote: > > > > > javascript would need to be at the theme layer. By default Manakin > > will provide set the RSS feeds in the HTML header and most browsers > > will put an icon at the end of the URL bar for them. If you would like > > to change this behavior then you will need to customize it in a theme. > > > > Scott-- > > > > > > On Mar 19, 2008, at 6:08 AM, George Hamilton wrote: > > > >> Hello > >> > >> In the old JSP dspace we had some javascript embedded in the news > >> html > >> file for rendering an RSS feed. Looking at the DRI Schema there > >> doesn't > >> appear to be an element for scripts. Does anyone have advice on how > >> this can be done? > >> > >> Regards > >> > >> George -- Conal Tuohy New Zealand Electronic Text Centre www.nzetc.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
