Hello Hans,

interesting, i was considering to add something like that to the website, but could not figure out what the exact approach is; for instance how do you determine what goes into the feed? Is that per day?

Last 10 entries. Allowed in rss 0.91 are 15 entries max. As soon as a user edits a comment (or alike) a log entry gets written to a file. I publish the last 10 lines. See also for rss spec: http://channel.netscape.com/publish/help/mnn20/quickstart.html I did a quick hack in \startofftopic ruby -------------------------------------------------- rsstest.rb require 'rss' feed=Rss.new puts feed.rss { feed.title { "rsstest " } + feed.description { "my description" } + feed.link { "some link" } + feed.language { "en" } + feed.item { feed.title { "itemtitle" } + feed.link { "item link" } + feed.description { "item description"} } } -------------------------------------------------- rss.rb class Rss def initialize end def rss string = %Q{<?xml version="1.0"?> <rss version="0.91"> <channel>} string += yield.to_s if block_given? string +="</channel>\n</rss>\n" end def item string =" <item>" string += yield.to_s if block_given? string +="</item>\n" end def description string =" <description>" string += yield.to_s if block_given? string +="</description>\n" end def title string =" <title>" string += yield.to_s if block_given? string +="</title>\n" end def link string =" <link>" string += yield.to_s if block_given? string +="</link>\n" end def language string =" <language>" string += yield.to_s if block_given? string +="</language>\n" end end -------------------------------------------------- which can (of course) be done much smarter, but this was very quick... \stopofftopic Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net

Patrick Gundlach wrote:

I don't really understand (I am very new to RSS): one can insert time stamps in RSS 0.91 (<pubDate>), and RSS 1.0 doesn't need a timestamp (?).

so, what do we do: .91 and pubDate?

What use is a timestamp for, anyhow? (besides the user knowing when the entry dates?)

one can for instance decide to automatically download btw, is the 15 entries indeed a limit? i see feeds with much more Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

netscape.com is indeed the authority for 0.91, because rss was originally an idea created by Netscape Inc. Patrick Gundlach wrote:

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btw, is the 15 entries indeed a limit? i see feeds with much more

for 0.91. That is at least what

http://channel.netscape.com/publish/help/mnn20/quickstart.html

tells. Don't know how authorative it is.

Hans Hagen writes:

Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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It took me a while to do something with this, but I finally got around to testing it. This feed, as well as Hans' feed, would be much more usable as Rss version 1.0 (that is: with timestamp info added). Great idea though!

ok, no problem, i have to find the spec for that first -)

Overview: http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/ spec: http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/ -> http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/spec Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net