You may want to look at this: http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users/browse_thread/thread/1f9570f7f4277a4f/ and more on render tags here: http://www.reddotcmsblog.com/digging-deeper-with-navigation-manager-render-tags-%E2%80%93-a-beginner%E2%80%99s-guide http://www.reddotcmsblog.com/render-tags-an-overview
Or a pragmatic and quick solution would be to use CDATA for the description. Not the most elegant way but valid RSS AFAIK... Cheers, Heiko On Nov 21, 12:04 pm, dino <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, I finally got around to building this out, and wanted to thank > you, this approach is mostly working, with just one problem: > -Sharing the description txt element is problematic, unless I use a > short blurb that needs zero formatting, an stf. But we're going to > need multiple paragraphs for at least half this stuff. If someone > wants a carriage return, then the xml will have html in it. Any ideas > for how to get around this? > Just so everyone understands what I'm trying to do: I have an html > page and a xml (podcast rss feed) page, sharing the same content > elements. What I need is for the text elements that are shared, for > the minimal amount of markup that they would contain, the tags would > need to be converted to <p> , </p> , etc. > > Thanks, > -Dino > > On Nov 5, 1:57 am, heiko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > you can probably get around that without using variants (and I would > > recommend to do so if this is the only other variant in the project). > > I would use a list instead of a container and let the overview-page > > pull the contents ("transfer from connected pages" or something along > > those lines) . This way, you can use a new template (the RSS feed) > > with another list, reference the original list or connect it to a > > keyword like "Environment-Podcast" and display the pulled contents in > > a RSS-manner in that template. > > If you want to continue using the container, you would probably have > > to go with project variants (not sure though). > > cheers > > Heiko > > > On Nov 5, 5:53 am, dino <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > Has anyone successfully used reddot to generate apodcastxml version > > > of a web page with multiple media links? Either using an xml variant > > > or some other trickery? > > > What I'm trying to do: we have a video page template, with a container > > > for adding video items. Each video item body template has a video link > > > (with a lightboxed jw player) and a title and description, a few other > > > placeholders. I'll probably be using keywords to attach the video > > > items to the master page, so we'll have a Environmental Law video page > > > that will pull all the items with the Environment keyword, a Criminal > > > Law, page, etc. I'm looking for the best way to have reddot take all > > > the same content and simultaneously publish an xml file, formatted for > > > podcasting. > > > Has anyone done this? Any tips before I go down the variant path? > > > Thanks, > > > -Dino -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en.
