Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: > BUT... how do they choose what goes into the RSS <description> > element? (Especially... when they want the RSS <description> element > to be a summary... and NOT the full text of the post.)
The way my CMS does it is: 1. There is a field in the database called "summary". If this is non-empty, this is the summary; 2. Otherwise, if the message contains an HTML comment: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]@--> then it treats everything before that comment as being part of the summary; 3. Otherwise, it takes the first kilobyte of text, and performs various bits of trickery to ensure that it doesn't break a word in half and closes all its HTML elements properly; 4. If the above fails, it substitutes "Summary not available", or the equivalent in the same language as the article itself if possible. This mostly seems to work well, but I agree that <div class="hsummary"> might be a nice idea. If it existed, I'd probably nestle it between #1 and #2 above, though it's somewhat harder to implement for a naive HTML parser than #2 is. -- Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS [Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux] [OS: Linux 2.6.12-12mdksmp, up 95 days, 16:48.] Non-Intuitive Surnames http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/05/25/non-intuitive-surnames/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss