RE: Channel link to your portal/viewer from xmlTree

["Carmen" <chv@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx]

For a standalone news reading application such as Headline Viewer,
drag and drop would be an ideal transfer mechanism. I will have
to add some code...

Carmen

Try Headline Viewer at http://www.vertexdev.com/HeadlineViewer

-----Original Message-----
From: Portals@userland.com [mailto:Portals@userland.com]On Behalf Of
james@xmlTree.com
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 1999 5:13 AM
To: XML-L@listserv.heanet.ie; syndication@onelist.com;
portals@userland.com
Cc: Chris Tolles
Subject: [syndication] Channel link to your portal/viewer from xmlTree


Hi XML Portal and News Viewer builders,

xmlTree now lists and categorises just under 1000 news and forum channels.
xmlTree is not
a portal, but we want content users to be able to use the search facilities
of xmlTree to
find channels that they might be interested in, and then to view those
channels in their
favorite portal or news viewer.

At the moment xmlTree exports news channels in the OCS format.  However,
with 1000+
channels, the OCS document is large, and the user won't want to scroll
through all of
them.  So what we are proposing is to provide links to portals and viewers
to allow users
to add a channel to their portal or viewer channel selection after they have
found and
viewed details of the channel on xmlTree.

For example, to allow a user to add a channel to their My.Netscape, we could
provide a
link like http://my.netscape.com/addchannel.tmpl?service=net.316 together
with Netscape's
Add Channel button.

If the portal or viewer needed to support a particular channel before this
could work, we
would need to know what these were.  Rather than refer to a channel by a
proprietary
channel id which varies by portal, we would prefer to use the URL of the
channel.
My.Userland already does this in it's serviceList.

So this means, for example, that on the detail page for the Segfault
channel, we could
provide a link like
http://my.netscape.com/addchannel.tmpl?url=http://segfault.org/stories.xml
for
My.Netscape, or
http://org.openjava.animus.AddChannel?url=http://segfault.org/stories.xml
for TheWeb.StartsHere.net, or
http://my.userland.com/choose?url=http://segfault.org/stories.xml for
My.Userland,
together with a button of your choice.

[Carmen - how could we do this for CHV?]

This would (as always) be a free service.  Let me know how this sounds and
whether you
would like a link to your portal/viewer.

Best regards,
James Carlyle

james@xmltree.com
www.xmltree.com - directory of XML content on the web