> > I then started to think about what cool things could come from this. We
> > can take multiple RSS channels and 'blend' them into one channel. So
> > for the 'cool-computer-news' site we could blend:
> >
> > Slashdot
> > xmlhack
> > Freshmeat
> > xml.apache.org
> > Mozilla
> >
> > Then as each RSS channel is updated the <items> would be blended into on
> > large RSS channel and XSLTd into a Portlet. The result would be a new
> > unique website with content from each site sorted into a new RSS
> > channel.
> >
>
> Actually this can be done with the current Jetspeed :
> - define an OCS feed with all the channels you want to agregate
> named myfeeds.ocs
> - define a new protletregistry entry:
>
> <portlet type="ref" paranet="Cocoon" name="MyFeeds">
> <url>/content/myfeeds.ocs</url>
> <parameter name="stylesheet" name="mystylesheet.xsl">
> </portlet>
>
> by using the document(...) function in mystylesheet.xsl you can
> agregate all the referred URLs and output whatever you like...
>
> Implementation is left as an exercise to the reader... (you can of
> course contribute this to the project) :P
>
How would you get the items to render any other way than linearly?
eg Slashdot, Slashdot, Slashdot, xmlhack, xmlhack, xmlhack, freshmeat,
freshmeat, freshmeat... etc
(as you mentioned above, RSS has no way of timestamping elements, so you
can't order the entire set by times?)
Surely if this is the case, why not just render the portlets one after the
other (achieves the same order of content anyway)? ;)
Mike
PS If there is a pure XSL solution I'd love to hear it, I need it elsewhere
;)
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