Comments on: Generating RSS Feeds with Rome http://blogs.exist.com/oching/2008/08/26/generating-rss-feeds-with-rome/ Thoughts to ponder.. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:33:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Alex http://blogs.exist.com/oching/2008/08/26/generating-rss-feeds-with-rome/#comment-812 Alex Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:41:36 +0000 http://blogs.exist.com/oching/2008/08/26/generating-rss-feeds-with-rome/#comment-812 Hi Deng, I'm using ROME to update an XML file for my RSS feeds. If I wanted to go with the "generate by request" approach, do you just always add a fixed number of entries into the feed for each request? Or is there a way for knowing when the reader was last updated? Thanks! Hi Deng,

I’m using ROME to update an XML file for my RSS feeds. If I wanted to go with the “generate by request” approach, do you just always add a fixed number of entries into the feed for each request? Or is there a way for knowing when the reader was last updated?

Thanks!

]]> By: Rohit http://blogs.exist.com/oching/2008/08/26/generating-rss-feeds-with-rome/#comment-731 Rohit Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:22:48 +0000 http://blogs.exist.com/oching/2008/08/26/generating-rss-feeds-with-rome/#comment-731 You mentioned that: <code> Now, to publish your feed.. you can write it into a file (example, write it to rss.xml) which the feed reader checks for updates or <b>you can generate the feed by request (like how it is done in Archiva)</b>. If you are publishing your feeds by writing it on a file, you might need to read the file into a SyndFeed before adding new entries as shown below:</code> If it is so, where do we place the code for generating the feed (RSS/Atom). Can I have a sample of any JSP file or can you be little elaborate on this? I need to implement the same. Please help. You mentioned that:

Now, to publish your feed.. you can write it into a file (example, write it to rss.xml) which the feed reader checks for updates or you can generate the feed by request (like how it is done in Archiva). If you are publishing your feeds by writing it on a file, you might need to read the file into a SyndFeed before adding new entries as shown below:

If it is so, where do we place the code for generating the feed (RSS/Atom). Can I have a sample of any JSP file or can you be little elaborate on this?

I need to implement the same. Please help.

]]> By: Jon http://blogs.exist.com/oching/2008/08/26/generating-rss-feeds-with-rome/#comment-384 Jon Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:10:49 +0000 http://blogs.exist.com/oching/2008/08/26/generating-rss-feeds-with-rome/#comment-384 Rome is a royal pain in the ass. It is the equivalent of using Java to build a HTML page, which has long been a stupid idea. If there is some extension to RSS/Atom that you want, you have to go find some extra library that implements it or implement it yourself. A far far easier and more easily maintained solution is to just use Velocity templates. Pass in a context of your data objects and render the output via the template. <a href="http://lookfirst.com/2008/04/piclens.html" rel="nofollow">I also talk about it here</a> Rome is a royal pain in the ass. It is the equivalent of using Java to build a HTML page, which has long been a stupid idea. If there is some extension to RSS/Atom that you want, you have to go find some extra library that implements it or implement it yourself.

A far far easier and more easily maintained solution is to just use Velocity templates. Pass in a context of your data objects and render the output via the template.

I also talk about it here

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