One way to do it is just get the data in your usual way (from queries etc), then do
something like this:
<cfcontent type="text/xml; UTF-8">
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="your encoding format here">
<rss version="2.0">
RSS Bits here (<channel>, <title> etc)
<cfoutput query="queryfrom_my_tables>
<item>
<title>#title#</title>
<link>#link#</link>
(and so on)
</cfoutput>
</channel>
</rss>
The resulting page should be properly formatted RSS which can be accessed at the
far end by whoever wants it. It's up to them to write something which downloads
and parses the relevant data...
David
--- "Lovelock, Richard J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK thanks Rich/Ellis
>
> I am still not really too clear how this would be done in terms of making
> the necessary data accessible
>
> the data is stored in a whole host of different tables and Commonspot uses a
> load of moderately complex queries on all the pages to retrieve all the
> correct data for display (all of which kind of happens behind the scenes as
> you would expect from a CMS)
>
> would I be feeding data straight from a DB or is it possible to pull data
> from the final rendered HTML code ?
>
> this is all a bit foggy still
>
> also, does whoever is going to be receiving any RSS feed have to be involved
> in any dev work to enable them to receive and process whatever we are
> supplying to them?
>
> sorry if none of this is making too much sense!!
>
>
> _______________________________________________________
>
> * Regards,
> Richard Lovelock,
> Senior Application Analyst.
>
> Westminster City Council - Web Support
> Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
> Southbank
> 95 Wandsworth Road
> London
> SW8 2HG
>
> ( 0870 906 7482
>
> _______________________________________________________
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Wild [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 23 March 2004 12:08
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] XML/RSS Feed
>
>
> well, my site, funjunkie has several feeds including RSS 0.91 and 2.0 (and
> wddx). Its very very easy to create a feed - they're just textfiles, so you
> just copy the format and change what you need.
>
> I've created a coldfusion template that writes the rss page and then
> scheduled it to create the raw news.rss files so that a CF page isn't run
> everytime someone grabs the feed, which with modern aggregators happens
> quite a lot.
>
> Feel free to nick the format, follow http://www.funjunkie.co.uk
> <http://www.funjunkie.co.uk> and then the feeds are at the bottom of the
> page. The copy for each post item has its HTML formatting removed in my
> versions.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lovelock, Richard J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 23 March 2004 11:55
> To: 'cflist'
> Subject: [ cf-dev ] XML/RSS Feed
>
>
> Hi guys
>
> I've had a new call come through. Details are as follows:
>
> - Investigate possibility of exporting website data as an XML/RSS feed to
> other (selected) websites
>
> Not too sure of the finer details. We are on CF5 and use Paperthin's CF
> based content management system where all data is stored in Commonspot's
> defined DB tables.
>
> I have absolutely no exposure to XML or RSS and need some advice if this
> sort of thing is possible and where to start looking? Have read a couple of
> intros to XML/RSS to get a bit of backgound but as I say, I am completely
> new.
>
> Would greatly appreciate any advice you can give me.
> _______________________________________________________
>
> * Regards,
> Richard Lovelock,
> Senior Application Analyst.
>
> Westminster City Council - Web Support
> Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
> Southbank
> 95 Wandsworth Road
> London
> SW8 2HG
>
> ( 0870 906 7482
>
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