[Zope-CMF] Re: DTML, RSS customization and my incompetency...

[Dmitry S. Makovey]

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On August 24, 2004 12:51 pm, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> Dmitry S. Makovey wrote:
> > Anybody has any idea what's going on? And can anybody show me right
> > direction (I don't want to put more logic in itemRSS - I'd like to make
> > it per-type customizable)?
>
> don't do that - just alter itemRSS and switch formating per portal_type
> you want a different rendering for. this is easy to do, fast and scales
> well.

Actually it seems to scale worse than what I was trying to do as it requires 
modifications to itemRSS every time I introduce new type, unless I'm going to 
provide some kind of central registry for renderers, which generates some 
overhead in performace IMO.


> RSS in CMFDefault is 'just' a collection of dtml methods that issue a
> query to portal_catalog and format the results to a template.
>
> > P.S.
> > Also rssBody doesn't really care for state of the documents which worries
> > me somewhat.
>
> you get the objects you are allowed to view by your role - try access
> the feed as 'anonymous' and you will only get published objects in the
> results.

oops didn't think about that...

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> > Web Systems Administrator
> > Athabasca University
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Dmitry Makovey
Web Systems Administrator
Athabasca University
(780) 675-6245
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