Syndication Roundup

January 22, 2004 – 12:00 am

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 Forge
Same great project, now with [...]

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Live Journal Friends Feed in Atom 0.3

January 4, 2004 – 12:00 am

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 Journal:
http://www.livejournal.com/customview.cgi?user=[username]&styleid=379504
This is not the same [...]

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Librarian Tees: Metadata

January 2, 2004 – 12:00 am

[ via Dorothea ] I must have this t-shirt!
Alas, I can’t. They stopped taking orders.

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Atom Roundup

December 13, 2003 – 12:00 am

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.

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Paul Ford redoes Harpers.org

December 1, 2003 – 12:00 am

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 to a [...]

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Link Dump: Web Tech

November 15, 2003 – 12:00 am

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 is back!

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Using XInclude in Feeds

November 7, 2003 – 12:00 am

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”>

[...]

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Dynamically Creating PDFs in a Web Application

October 3, 2003 – 12:00 am

Using the iText library from a servlet to deliver PDF files.

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Cocoon’s Competitors

September 16, 2003 – 12:00 am

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 caches [...]

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A RSS Primer for Publishers and Content Providers

September 9, 2003 – 12:00 am

[ 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.

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A CMS with WebDAV and Cocoon

August 29, 2003 – 12:00 am

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.

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Supporting the Desperate RSS Hacker

August 21, 2003 – 12:00 am

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 wget, [...]

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Why Produce a Valid Feed?

August 20, 2003 – 12:00 am

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 &amp;. This is most often in <title>s.
In my experience this most often afflicts larger publications, not [...]

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TEI Markup and Style Sheet Example

August 14, 2003 – 12:00 am

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.

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Atom 0.2 snapshot

August 12, 2003 – 12:00 am

For future reference: the Atom 0.2 snapshot. It removes a few annoying redundancies from the feed.

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