"Lacerda, Wellington (AFIS)" wrote:
>
> Sorry for the ignorance, but...
>
> What is OCS ?
Open Content Syndication -> http://www.internetalchemy.org/ocs
> Does WML stand for webmaker ?
No. Wireless Markup Language. It is what your PalmV eats :)
> Wellington
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Lucas [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 8:15 PM
> To: JetSpeed
> Subject: Re: New Portlet / Questions
>
> Kevin -
>
> Sorry for not getting back to you sooner but my mail has been down
> for the
> past couple of days and I lost what didn't make it through so I had
> to look
> through the archives to find your reply.
>
> I can't open up the entire code that I wrote but I should be able to
> break
> out the necessary pieces which I think will be very useful. What
> sort of
> 'thing' were you planning on using for the OCS subscription piece?
> Maybe I
> could write that using the pieces from my harvester. You mentioned
> possibly
> a Turbine service for this, is that still the direction you want to
> go or
> something else?
>
> josh
>
> Subject: Re: New Portlet / Questions
> From: "Kevin A. Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 14:08:09 -0800
>
> Joshua Lucas wrote:
> <snip>
> > Basically, it's a Java app which gets called by cron every 20
> minutes to =
> go
> > out and 'get' the latest headlines from a variety of news
> providers =
> which we
> > have for our(EarthLink) portal. The files are already in XML as
> they =
> follow
> > a spec we gave them.
>
> If you XSLT this XML spec you can use the OCS subscription channel
> when
> it is done.
>
> > Once we have the XML put into DOM, we send it through
> > an XSL Processor(currently Lotus but soon will be Xalan) to
> output for
> > various formats(HTML, JavaScript include file, WML, etc).
>
> This is one strong reason to have Cocoon support.... WML
>
> > That way we
> > already have the data and the portal is intelligent to know which
> file =
> to
> > load based on the user's prefs. Does that make sense?
> >
> > If you think something like this would be useful, I'd be more than
> =
> willing
> > to re-write for JetSpeed (or Turbine).
>
> I have to write one soon for OCS content subscription. However it
> might
> be cool to look at your code if you can open it.
>
> Kevin
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