> From: Kimbro Staken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > On Friday, February 22, 2002, at 01:16 AM, Ugo Cei wrote: > > > Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > > > >> Anyway, can't we *directly* use RSS for blogs? is much more semantic > >> than OPML anyway. > > > > You asked for it, you got it. My "embryo-of-a-blog" > > (http://violetta.cbim.it/cocoon/mount/beeb/) now uses RSS 1.0. > > > > You can also get the raw RSS feed by clicking on the little "XML" button > > in the bottom right. > > > > I have a problem now. I want to limit the entries displayed in the > > homepage to the 20 most recent or so. I could do it in XSLT but it would > > be horrible performance-wise as the numner of entries grows. I really > > need to sort the entries in reverse date order and retrieve only the > > first N items in the collection and do it in the XMLDB source. Ideas > > anyone? > > > > We need a richer language then XPath to do that. It will come with XQuery, > but it's a long way off. We'll need to figure something out in the short > term, but I'm not sure what. XSL-T is probably the best solution today. To > keep the size of the result set down you might need to limit the query to > just retrieving the last 7 days of posts or something along those lines. > Not ideal, I know.
Isn't Xindice collection already ordered by time document was inserted? Than simple query like /db/blog/*[position() > last()-20] should work then, or something like /db/blog/*[position() = last()]/preceding::*[position() < 20] should even inverse the order... Vadim > > Ugo > > > > P.S.: should we move this discussion to forrest-dev or maybe cross-post? > > > > > > -- Ugo Cei - Consorzio di Bioingegneria e Informatica Medica > > P.le Volontari del Sangue, 2 - 27100 Pavia - Italy > > Phone: +39.0382.525100 - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Kimbro Staken - http://www.kstaken.org - http://www.xmldatabases.org > Apache Xindice native XML database http://xml.apache.org > XML:DB Initiative http://www.xmldb.org > Senior Technologist (Your company name here) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
