Index: openacs-4/packages/rss-support/rss-support.info
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RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/rss-support/rss-support.info,v
diff -u -r1.12 -r1.12.2.1
--- openacs-4/packages/rss-support/rss-support.info 10 Nov 2003 16:36:31 -0000 1.12
+++ openacs-4/packages/rss-support/rss-support.info 6 Dec 2003 15:48:55 -0000 1.12.2.1
@@ -12,17 +12,24 @@
Dave Bauer
Jerry Asher
Andrew Grumet
- Basic support for RSS generation (and parsing). RDF Site Summary (RSS) is a lightweight multipurpose extensible metadata description and syndication format. This package can be used to publish ACS objects in a manner useful to other websites and webservices.
-
+ Service contracts and support for generating RSS feeds
2003-11-10
- For each item (news event, ticket, bboard message, ...) that you want to publish, you create a property list that describes that item (url to item, title of item, description of item, etc.). You pass a list of those items
-(and some other parameters) to rss_gen, and it will generate your XML for you.
-
-<ul>
-<li> <a href='http://www.google.com/search?q=rss+0.91'>RSS 0.91 specification</a>
-<li> <a href='http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/files/specification.html'>RSS 1.0 specification</a>
-</ul>
-
+ Basic support for RSS
+generation and parsing. RDF Site Summary (RSS) is a lightweight
+multipurpose extensible metadata description and syndication format.
+This package can be used to publish site content in a manner useful to
+other websites and webservices. <p> For each item (news event,
+ticket, bboard message, ...) that you want to publish, you create a
+property list that describes that item (url to item, title of item,
+description of item, etc.). You pass a list of those items (and some
+other parameters) to rss_gen, and it will generate your XML for you.
+You can also implenent a set of functions that satisfy the RSS service
+contracts and the RSS can be recreated from a scheduled procedure.
+
+<ul>
+<li> <a href='http://www.google.com/search?q=rss+0.91'>RSS 0.91 specification</a>
+<li> <a href='http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/files/specification.html'>RSS 1.0 specification</a>
+</ul>