Update: title change. Blogger does Atom, Trifecta Complete Blogger announced support for Atom: both the format and the API. It’s easy to turn on Atom feeds from the Blogger control panel. So the big three of the Weblog space: Blogger, Live Journal, and Moveable Type are all supporting the format. Feed Validator Moves to Source [...]
Update: note that: The custom style below no longer works for LJ’s other than mine. Atom 0.3 has been deprecated. I do not plan to fix the bug. Thanks to Kim Slawson for letting me know about the custom style bug. I’ve wasted a sunny afternoon working on a Atom 0.3 friends feed from Live [...]
[ via Dorothea ] I must have this t-shirt! Alas, I can’t. They stopped taking orders.
Several Atom (Syndication Format) links to note: Sam Ruby’s slides for XML 2003 The 0.3 Syntax Draft The 0.9 API Draft Mark Pilgrim’s explication of the 0.3 syntax draft. Mark also wrote a Movable Type template for the new syntax. Update: my Atom feed now validates as 0.3.
Paul Ford, polymath at large, has redone the Harpers Magazine website using his XSLT framework. He’s built the site out of a collection of articles, and smaller bits of content, all wired together with a ontology/glossary mechanism he calls “Connections”. So you go to the Harpers’ Index, see a mention of Enron, and follow it [...]
Keeping Navigation Current with PHP PHP is not the key to this, it’s CSS. I’m using the same trick with XSLT generating static pages. Multi-ISBN Library Lookup Jon Udell’s tool extended to support multiple versions of a title. Scripting OS X Introduction to shell, Perl, and Apple Script from the terminal Entry Replacement JavaScript Gazingus [...]
It was great to read Ken MacLeod’s note on “Is a feed the right place for your data?” as it confirmed some things I’ve been experimenting with at work. Rather than using an html:link reference from a feed to a content piece, I use xinclude, so you get, in Atom: <entry xmlns=”…”> … <content type=”text/xhtml”> [...]
Using the iText library from a servlet to deliver PDF files.
From the Cocoon Wiki, a list of open source and proprietary projects similar to Apache Cocoon. From that list, mod_murka looks neat. It looks for a cached HTML version of the request URI, and if it’s not found, looks for the .xml file, transforms it using whatever stylesheet’s mentioned in the file’s processing instruction, and [...]
[ via Lockergnome's RSS Resources ] The Edinburgh Electronic Virtual Library wrote a guide to RSS for publishers. It covers why’d you want to provide RSS, what makes a good source for an RSS feed, and how to build one. However, the example of making a feed doesn’t cover escaping the content.
Guido Casper wrote a how-to for the Cocoon Wiki on creating a Content Management System using Coocon and WebDAV: no additional Java needed. It’s just configuration.
Continuing with making it easier for “Big Pubs” to create RSS feeds. I’m assuming that they have a publishing system, but it wasn’t built with RSS in mind, but they want on the bandwagon. As a start, rather than retrofitting their existing publishing system, they can scrape their HTML. All they need are curl or [...]
Continuing the discussion on feed validity, and punishing users for the mistakes of producers, Brent Simmons writes: The single most common cause of non-well-formedness that I see is unencoded ampersands. They appear in a feed as & rather than as &. This is most often in <title>s. In my experience this most often afflicts larger [...]
From the XML for Libraries list: a sample document and XSLT style sheets for writing and rendering academic articles using the TEI’s XML scheme.
For future reference: the Atom 0.2 snapshot. It removes a few annoying redundancies from the feed.