Johnny -
What you want to do is supported, but you will need to put the
elements into a different namespace (since there is no <summary>
element on a <feed> element in the http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom
namespace)
Your XML will look something like:
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"; xmlns:tolliver="http://johnny.tollivers.namespace.url
">
<title type="text">title goes here...</title>
<tolliver:summary>Here's your Summary Element</tolliver:summary>
<entry>
... you get the drift from here ...
</entry>
</feed>
The Abdera API supports this nicely - you would do something like the
above as follows:
Feed feed = getMyFeedObjectSomehow();
QName summaryQName = new QName("http://johnny.tollivers.namespace.url
", "summary", "tolliver");
feed.addSimpleExtension(summaryQName, "Here's your Summary
Element");
if you needed a richer structure to an extension, Abdera supports
that, too - but it's a bit more coding.
- Bryon
On Feb 27, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Johnny Tolliver wrote:
Hi! I'm new to Abdera and the mailing list and have just one question.
I need to be able to build an Atom document that has some extra non-
standard elements in it. For example, in addition to <title> and
<subtitle> for a <feed>, I need to add a <summary> element. The name
<summary> was chosen to match the <summary> that's available in an
<entry>, but I need it at the <feed> level in addition to the
entries. Similarly, I need a <subtitle> and a <published> in an
<entry>.
Is that usage supported in Abdera? Perhaps in the extension mechanism?
Thanks,
Johnny Tolliver
[email protected]
865-574-1305
