El mié, 11-01-2006 a las 23:21 +1300, Paul Bolger escribió: > > Sounds to me like Forrest should be generating an RSS feed of these news > > items. You could then leverage the feeder plugin for your home page > > headlines, whilst you would also be able to provide feeds for external > > sites. > > > > Since RSS is a more widely adopted standard for this kind of thing I'd > > recommend using creating a plugin that built the RSS feed rather than > > the custom navigation. > > This is getting away from my initial proposal somewhat, which was more > of a content indexer. Don't take that as too negative though: I'm > fully prepared to be convinced on this and I'm interested in being > part of the development process. I must admit that I'm a little hazy > about how RSS would work in this context. > > > > what you're talking about but I'm thinking you could do something like > > > this: > > > o) Add a metadata element called "expires": > > > <meta name="expires" value="1/11/2006"/> > > > > other meta-data, such as keywords, summary and publication date could > > also be used to good effect. But one at a time is a good idea ;-) > > The only problem with 'expires' is that - this is a real world > situation - everyone goes off on holidays and the news items all get > automatically killed. No news isn't good news if you have a space for > four items on your page! I'd prefer "the last four stories published". > I'm interested in how one would go about adding the extra metadata > element. Is it possible for the source doc to have an appended, or > extra, DTD with custom elements?
The biggest problem I see is that the provide functionality is a CMS feature. Forrest is not a CMS it is a renderer. salu2 -- thorsten "Together we stand, divided we fall!" Hey you (Pink Floyd)
