Re: [syndication] Re: Independent Online Newspaper RSS Feeds

["Bruce Whealton" <bruce@trianglewebhosting.biz>]

Pavel,
Thanks for your feedback.  Yeah, XML is new to me.  I use a weblog that's
called
Pmachine and it generates a nice RSS feed.
I think I do need to learn more about the material you mention.  I do have a
copy of
XMLSpy and the tutorial for it.  Forgive me for the ignorance but let me ask
you
to explain or refer me to some reading material, where to start as it were.
Ok, You said,
> You'd better just go ahead and create the sites as you want them, and
> then generate an XML from the database.
This implies that the sites will be based on a db, perhaps an obvious
assumption to you
but I just need to clarify it.  I have been using php and mysql as that is
what my servers
support.  And I have looked at some other web site php scripts, no sense
starting
from scratch if something can be found.  So, from what you said, a straight
xhtml site won't cut it.
I might add a newsletter feature to the site(s) and then generate the xml
file from that.
If I use someone else's newsletter script and it doesn't support RSS is it
still
easy enough to generate the XML/RSS feed from it, meaning as easy as
otherwise
were I to create everything from scratch.   Finding these types of php/mysql
scripts that
also support RSS/XML is not easy.
> Basically, you will just need to make one script to generate the
> export, then put a copy of it in every site where you want to export
> stuff from, or just call it with a different parameter for each site.
> Here's an example of a case very similar to yours:
> http://rss.jpress.co.uk/
Obviously that won't show me the script, will it?  I mean when I think of
scripts I think
of PHP or ASP that get executed before it gets to my browser.  Right?
So, again, I don't mind recommended reading, hopefully some web sites that
might illumniate things,
perhaps the XMLSpy book might help.
Thanks,
Oh, I'll be glad to check out the site you mention,
Bruce

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> >From the sound of it, your needs are so specific that you will never
> find a ready-made CMS to fit.
> You'd better just go ahead and create the sites as you want them, and
> then generate an XML from the database.
> An export XML is extremely easy to create - much easier than an html
> page, in fact. For comparison - on one of my sites I have 350 lines of
> code to generate the home page, and 30 lines of code to generate the
> XML for it.
> Basically, you will just need to make one script to generate the
> export, then put a copy of it in every site where you want to export
> stuff from, or just call it with a different parameter for each site.
> Here's an example of a case very similar to yours:
> http://rss.jpress.co.uk/
> This is the RSS exports of a group of UK newspapers (several dozen of
> them).
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> Best regards
> Pavel
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