Thanks to both of you, I now have a few approaches to play around with.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:14 PM, markus giesen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Or fresh and new use this article / template as a base:
> http://bit.ly/4P1i9X
>
> Credits go to Kim for coding!
>
> On 24 Nov., 12:16, heiko <[email protected]> wrote:
>> You may want to look at 
>> this:http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users/browse_thread/thread/...
>> and more on render tags 
>> here:http://www.reddotcmsblog.com/digging-deeper-with-navigation-manager-r...http://www.reddotcmsblog.com/render-tags-an-overview
>>
>> Or a pragmatic and quick solution would be to use CDATA for the
>> description. Not the most elegant way but valid RSS AFAIK...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Heiko
>>
>> On Nov 21, 12:04 pm, dino <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hey, I finally got around to building this out, and wanted to thank
>> > you, this approach is mostly working, with just one problem:
>> > -Sharing the description txt element is problematic, unless I use a
>> > short blurb that needs zero formatting, an stf. But we're going to
>> > need multiple paragraphs for at least half this stuff. If someone
>> > wants a carriage return, then the xml will have html in it. Any ideas
>> > for how to get around this?
>> > Just so everyone understands what I'm trying to do: I have an html
>> > page and a xml (podcast rss feed) page, sharing the same content
>> > elements. What I need is for the text elements that are shared, for
>> > the minimal amount of markup that they would contain, the tags would
>> > need to be converted to &lt;p&gt; , &lt;/p&gt; , etc.
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> > -Dino
>>
>> > On Nov 5, 1:57 am, heiko <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > > Hi,
>> > > you can probably get around that without using variants (and I would
>> > > recommend to do so if this is the only other variant in the project).
>> > > I would use a list instead of a container and let the overview-page
>> > > pull the contents ("transfer from connected pages" or something along
>> > > those lines) . This way, you can use a new template (the RSS feed)
>> > > with another list, reference the original list or connect it to a
>> > > keyword like "Environment-Podcast" and display the pulled contents in
>> > > a RSS-manner in that template.
>> > > If you want to continue using the container, you would probably have
>> > > to go with project variants (not sure though).
>> > > cheers
>> > > Heiko
>>
>> > > On Nov 5, 5:53 am, dino <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > > > Hi,
>> > > > Has anyone successfully used reddot to generate apodcastxml version
>> > > > of a web page with multiple media links? Either using an xml variant
>> > > > or some other trickery?
>> > > > What I'm trying to do: we have a video page template, with a container
>> > > > for adding video items. Each video item body template has a video link
>> > > > (with a lightboxed jw player) and a title and description, a few other
>> > > > placeholders. I'll probably be using keywords to attach the video
>> > > > items to the master page, so we'll have a Environmental Law video page
>> > > > that will pull all the items with the Environment keyword, a Criminal
>> > > > Law, page, etc. I'm looking for the best way to have reddot take all
>> > > > the same content and simultaneously publish an xml file, formatted for
>> > > > podcasting.
>> > > > Has anyone done this? Any tips before I go down the variant path?
>> > > > Thanks,
>> > > > -Dino
>
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