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Need help regarding RSS feed in forrest

Jan 17, 2008, 4:27 AM

Post #1 of 4 (2168 views)

Hi i am trying to include RSS feed in my website. But the explanation given
in the apache forrest site is not clear. I am follwoing this..

Example: integrating external RSS content
Similar to the previous example, we can integrate RSS into our site simply
by providing a match in our project sitemap.xmap ...

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<map:sitemap xmlns:map="http://apache.org/cocoon/sitemap/1.0">
<map:pipelines>
<map:pipeline>

<map:match pattern="**weblog.xml">
<map:generate src="http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/index.rss"/>
<map:transform src="{forrest:stylesheets}/rss2document.xsl"/>
<map:serialize type="xml"/>
</map:match>

<map:match pattern=".......">

</map:match>
</map:pipeline>
</map:pipelines>
</map:sitemap>
You will probably want to copy the core Forrest rss2document.xsl to your
project, customise it to your needs, and refer to it with
src="{project:resources.stylesheets}/rss2document.xsl". Then of course you
would add an entry to site.xml to link to weblog.html

Here i not able to understand 2 things one is "<map:match
pattern="**weblog.xml">" where will i keep this weblog.xml" file and how
will i map this to "site.xml" as explained above(Then of course you would
add an entry to site.xml to link to weblog.html ) .

i have a very simple site.xml attached with this.

Please guide me

Thanks in advance http://www.nabble.com/file/p14917813/site.xml
site.xml
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Re: Need help regarding RSS feed in forrest [ In reply to ]

rgardler at apache

Jan 17, 2008, 4:39 AM

Post #2 of 4 (2120 views)

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manojm_singh wrote:
> Hi i am trying to include RSS feed in my website. But the explanation given
> in the apache forrest site is not clear. I am follwoing this..

This is a simple example. you may prefer to use the feeder plugin which
provides more flexible facilities for embedding RSS. See
http://forrest.apache.org/pluginDocs/plugins_0_80/org.apache.forrest.plugin.input.feeder/

>
> Example: integrating external RSS content
> Similar to the previous example, we can integrate RSS into our site simply
> by providing a match in our project sitemap.xmap ...
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <map:sitemap xmlns:map="http://apache.org/cocoon/sitemap/1.0">
> <map:pipelines>
> <map:pipeline>
>
> <map:match pattern="**weblog.xml">
> <map:generate src="http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/index.rss"/>
> <map:transform src="{forrest:stylesheets}/rss2document.xsl"/>
> <map:serialize type="xml"/>
> </map:match>
>
> <map:match pattern=".......">
> 
> </map:match>
> </map:pipeline>
> </map:pipelines>
> </map:sitemap>
> You will probably want to copy the core Forrest rss2document.xsl to your
> project, customise it to your needs, and refer to it with
> src="{project:resources.stylesheets}/rss2document.xsl". Then of course you
> would add an entry to site.xml to link to weblog.html
>
> Here i not able to understand 2 things one is "<map:match
> pattern="**weblog.xml">" where will i keep this weblog.xml" file and how
> will i map this to "site.xml" as explained above(Then of course you would
> add an entry to site.xml to link to weblog.html ) .

It sounds like you need to start at the basics. In order to work with
sitemaps you need to understand the sitemap language. Start here
http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_90/sitemap-explain.html

If you are still having problems after reading that then ask again.

However, it is worth noting that if you use the feeder plugin (see
above) then you don't need to touch the sitemap.

Ross

Re: Need help regarding RSS feed in forrest [ In reply to ]

manojm_singh at hotmail

Jan 18, 2008, 1:26 AM

Post #3 of 4 (2119 views)

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Hi rgardler thanks for the reply. I followed the link provided by u and did
the same but not able to render the RSS feeds. I did like this
My feedDescriptor is like this and i put it in a folder like ->
xdocs\ConnectM\Technology\feedDescriptor.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feedDescriptor>
<feed id="BBCSport_UK">

<url>http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml#</url>
</feed>
</feedDescriptor>

and i have made an entry in site.xml like this

<technology label="Technology" href="ConnectM/Technology/" tab="Technology">
<overview label="Overview" href="technology.html" />
<m2m label="M2M" href="m2m.html" />
<java label="Java" href="java.html" />
<java label="RSS Link" href="Rss.html" />
</technology>

where Rss.xml is the feed xml file. Whenever i click on "RSS Link" nothing
is getting displayed.

Please help......

rgardler wrote:
>
> manojm_singh wrote:
>> Hi i am trying to include RSS feed in my website. But the explanation
>> given
>> in the apache forrest site is not clear. I am follwoing this..
>
> This is a simple example. you may prefer to use the feeder plugin which
> provides more flexible facilities for embedding RSS. See
> http://forrest.apache.org/pluginDocs/plugins_0_80/org.apache.forrest.plugin.input.feeder/
>
>>
>> Example: integrating external RSS content
>> Similar to the previous example, we can integrate RSS into our site
>> simply
>> by providing a match in our project sitemap.xmap ...
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <map:sitemap xmlns:map="http://apache.org/cocoon/sitemap/1.0">
>> <map:pipelines>
>> <map:pipeline>
>>
>> <map:match pattern="**weblog.xml">
>> <map:generate src="http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/index.rss"/>
>> <map:transform src="{forrest:stylesheets}/rss2document.xsl"/>
>> <map:serialize type="xml"/>
>> </map:match>
>>
>> <map:match pattern=".......">
>> 
>> </map:match>
>> </map:pipeline>
>> </map:pipelines>
>> </map:sitemap>
>> You will probably want to copy the core Forrest rss2document.xsl to your
>> project, customise it to your needs, and refer to it with
>> src="{project:resources.stylesheets}/rss2document.xsl". Then of course
>> you
>> would add an entry to site.xml to link to weblog.html
>>
>> Here i not able to understand 2 things one is "<map:match
>> pattern="**weblog.xml">" where will i keep this weblog.xml" file and how
>> will i map this to "site.xml" as explained above(Then of course you would
>> add an entry to site.xml to link to weblog.html ) .
>
> It sounds like you need to start at the basics. In order to work with
> sitemaps you need to understand the sitemap language. Start here
> http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_90/sitemap-explain.html
>
> If you are still having problems after reading that then ask again.
>
> However, it is worth noting that if you use the feeder plugin (see
> above) then you don't need to touch the sitemap.
>
> Ross
>
>

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Re: Need help regarding RSS feed in forrest [ In reply to ]

rgardler at apache

Jan 18, 2008, 5:56 AM

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manojm_singh wrote:
> Hi rgardler thanks for the reply. I followed the link provided by u and did
> the same but not able to render the RSS feeds. I did like this
> My feedDescriptor is like this and i put it in a folder like ->
> xdocs\ConnectM\Technology\feedDescriptor.xml
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <feedDescriptor>
> <feed id="BBCSport_UK">
>
> <url>http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml#</url>
> </feed>
> </feedDescriptor>
>
> and i have made an entry in site.xml like this
>
> <technology label="Technology" href="ConnectM/Technology/" tab="Technology">
> <overview label="Overview" href="technology.html" />
> <m2m label="M2M" href="m2m.html" />
> <java label="Java" href="java.html" />
> <java label="RSS Link" href="Rss.html" />
> </technology>
>
>
> where Rss.xml is the feed xml file. Whenever i click on "RSS Link" nothing
> is getting displayed.
>
> Please help......

Doing what the instructions say will help, see
http://forrest.apache.org/pluginDocs/plugins_0_80/org.apache.forrest.plugin.input.feeder/samples/singleFeed.html

Your feed descriptor is OK, but your URL to request it is incorrect (as
described in the above document):

--- start quote ---

<a href="PATH_TO_FEED_DESCRIPTOR/FEED_DESCRIPTOR_NAME.rss.EXTENSION>

In this URL you must replace PATH_TO_FEED_DESCRIPTOR with the directory
path to your feed descriptor file, FEED_DESCRIPTOR_NAME with the name of
the descriptor file, and EXTENSION with the extension indicating the
format you want the feed to be delivered in (i.e. html, pdf etc.)

--- end quote ---

so you need:

<a href="ConnectM/Technology/feedDescriptor.rss.html">

This means your site.xml should be:

<technology label="Technology" href="ConnectM/Technology/" tab="Technology">
<overview label="Overview" href="technology.html" />
<m2m label="M2M" href="m2m.html" />
<java label="Java" href="java.html" />
<java label="RSS Link" href="feedDescriptor.rss.html" />
</technology>

To test this just do 'forrest run' and try:

http://localhsot:8888/ConnectM/Technology/feedDescriptor.rss.html

You don't mention it, so I will... you need to ensure you enable the
plugin or it will never work, see
http://forrest.apache.org/pluginDocs/plugins_0_90/usingPlugins.html

Ross