[Zope] rss compliant blog

[Katie Legere]

Oops, sorry, I thought I'd cc'd the list.

The file I ran through the validator was the xml file (entries xml  - below)

The file I'm pointing to in my xml document is the one I want to aggregate

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
	 <rss version="2.0">

 	<channel>
 	  <title>KFPL on Zope</title>
 	  <link>http://192.168.10.73/kfplsite</link>
	   <description>Kingston Frontenac Public Library Site</description>
  	 <language>en-us</language>

 	 <image>
 	   <title>homepic.JPG</title>
 	   <url>http://192.168.10.73/kfplsite/images/homepic.JPG</url>
 	   <link>http://192.168.10.73/kfplsite</link>
 	   <width>60</width>
 	   <height>43</height>
 	 </image>


	<dtml-in expr="objectValues('DTML Document')"
sort="bobobase_modification_time" reverse>
	<item>
 	 <title> Central Blog </title>
 	 <link> http://192.168.10.73/staffnet/blog </link>
 	 <description><dtml-var document_src html_quote>  Submitted by:
 	 <dtml-var staff_name html_quote null="Anonymous"> on:
 	 <dtml-var bobobase_modification_time fmt=aCommon>
	</description>
	</item>
	</dtml-in>


	</channel>
	 </rss>

I *thought* that I would be validating the xml file for rss compliance...
Do I put the 'destination file' ( http://192.168.10.73/staffnet/blog ) in
the validator?

Kate


-----Original Message-----
From: Martijn Pieters [mailto:mj at zope.com]
Sent: October 30, 2003 4:32 PM
To: Katie Legere
Cc: zope at zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope] rss compliant blog


First of all, please let's keep the list in the loop; they may be of help
too.

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 04:19:50PM -0500, Katie Legere wrote:
> I put my site through, thanks for the link. Unfortunately I get this
error:
>
> -----
>
> The XML page cannot be displayed
> Cannot view XML input using XML style sheet. Please correct the error and
> then click the Refresh button, or try again later.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> ----
>
> A name contained an invalid character. Line 19, Position 88
>
> <dtml-in expr="objectValues('DTML Document')"
> sort="bobobase_modification_time" reverse>
>
> ----------

This sounds like the template itself, not the processed result is being fed
to the validator. Are you sure you are not pointing to the template source?

> So I'm assuming that the dtml is what's giving me trouble. I *thought* I
was
> following the Zope instructions for this though - can I not make a xml /
rss
> compliant feed that includes the dtml??

You can make valid RSS output using DTML, if that is what you mean. Do
remember that the DTML tags are instructions to Zope DTML objects to do
something specific there; DTML tags have no meaning to RSS processors, only
the *result* of the tags after DTML processing.

Personally, I use ZPT for XML output; it flows more naturally.

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Martijn Pieters
| Software Engineer  mailto:mj at zope.com
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