hi,

I am new to RSS but I have a feed on www.wallacehighrugby.org and I was
wondering if there was a way of displaying just the first article on another
site - www.wallacehigh.org - basically all I want is The headline so I can
have:

News from Wallace Rugby
: Then the first article title via RSS

Is this possible ?

David

David Cleland wrote:
You have two feeds, both slightly broken. The "RSS 2.0" feed looks like
RSS 0.91 and the "Atom" feed is a dubious looking Atom 0.3 format.

Change these to Atom 1.0 and if you must use RSS 2.0, then do real RSS
2.0 (I know there's an argument that "all 0.91 feeds are valid 2.0",
but that's a bogosity)

This is exactly the same problem as taking any external RSS feed and
rendering it into HTML for inclusion on a site. It needs some
server-side code, probably involving downloading a PHP snippet (or
whatever your server likes to run) then writing some _trivial_ XSLT to
extract the content and link that you want.

It's not a particularly easy script for a beginner to write - although
there's an "obvious" way to do it, it's also much improved if written
carefully so that it's robust against network glitches that make the
feed temporarily accessible and should also do some caching so that it
doesn't hammer your server on serving every page.

You could write it yourself from scratch (nice little PHP learning
exercise), but don't expect "version 1.0" to be production grade code,
it's trickier than it might appear.

If you control both servers then there might even be back-door tricks
you can play with shared files, but that's not really an RSS problem
any more.

__/ [ Andy Dingley ] on Monday 20 February 2006 15:04 \__


Excellent. Welcome to the next generation of Web exploration. *smile*



Invalidity is sometimes tolerated, but I agree one must not rely on it. The
same arguments apply to Web page design.



See the following popular tool:

http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/



Yes, indeed.



....Better re-use something robust and popular. It also continues to be
extended so it accommodates newer versions of RSS (soon to become a formal
standard?).



Hope it helps,

Roy

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