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Posted by Jared Zimmerman on 09/01/06 23:15
awsome now all i have to do is learn php and XSLT.....
Andy Dingley wrote:
> Jared Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > i would like to syndicate part of the RSS feed
>
> Time to write some code - pick your favourite server-side scripting
> language (from PHP and upwards).
>
> As to parsing the RSS and extracting the piece you want, then XSLT
> could do this fairly easily, with a couple of cautions:
>
> * XSLT only works with well-formed XML, and RSS frequently isn't
> well-formed XML. The example you quote isn't valid RSS, but it is close
> enough to be processed with XSLT - at least today!
>
> * XSLT is good at extracting the content of <description> with XPath,
> but it's not ideal for extracting text such as your address. It's easy
> enough in this case (use lots of calls to the substring-after()
> functions) as it's only a simple case - but it will be messy.
>
> XSLT would also make it easy to integrate the extracted results in with
> the rest of your HTML page.
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