Thank you. This explains a lot. I need to keep reading the docs to understand all of the pieces of Exhibit.
- John ************************************************** John Callahan Geospatial Application Developer Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware 227 Academy St, Newark DE 19716-7501 Tel: (302) 831-3584 Email: [email protected] http://www.dgs.udel.edu ************************************************** David Karger wrote: > the problem is that exhibit can't read any old json; it needs it in a > particular form where the name "items" is bound to an array of items. > You can write a little javascript converter to get the data in the right > form; exhibit will take care of fetching the data, will give it to your > converter, and deal with what you give back. API is > > link to the data this way: > <link href="delicious feed" type="application/jsonp" rel="exhibit/data" > ex:converter="myConverter" /> > > then write the ex:converter script in your document > > function myConverter(inputJson, url, link) { > return array of items in exhibit json format > } > } > > > > > > > callahan wrote: > >> Has anyone had success bringing in feeds from social bookmarking sites >> into Exhibit? I started with Delicious since they seem to have a >> JSON feed and I already had an account. (More info at >> http://delicious.com/help/feeds) >> >> I tried some tests with no luck. I've only just begun with the >> Exhibit (and it's extensions) so I'm still reading through, and trying >> to understand, the articles on the For Authors documentation, >> http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Exhibit/For_Authors. >> >> Here is a simple case I thought would work but doesn't. I get the >> "Working..." splash window..then nothing, a blank screen. Is there >> something obvious I'm missing? >> >> http://geo42.com/deltest.html >> >> >> As an aside, it looks like Delicious limits feeds to 100 entries. I'm >> not sure that will work for me. If anyone has experience using other >> social bookmarking sites (Digg, etc...) or even using a middle tier >> piece to convert feed formats to JSON or aggregate feeds into one >> (Feedburner, FeedBlendr, custom PHP code, etc... ), I'd be happy to >> hear your ideas. >> >> - John >> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" 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/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
