rss feed

Has anyone created RSS Feed using Livesite? I see there is an RSS page type that outputs the RSS XML shell. My take is I next need to create a component that aggregates the info I need in my feed and outputs the result as xml item nodes.

I want to take it a step further and add tags to this page, so the rss feed generated is based on the url parameters defined.

For example: rss.page?tag1=healthcare&tag2=hospital would return the 10 latest articles tagged wit healthcare or hospital. Similarly, rss.page?tag1=tax&tag2=spending would return the 10 recent articles tagged with tax or spending.

To that end I am a bit concerned about server performance too.

I think this solution should be possible but under tight time constraints I will have little room for gotchas when this goes to development. So want to get my ideas straight before i sell this.

Anyone else do RSS Feeds? Any ideas you wanna share?

Version: 7.3.2. Teamsite on Linux, LSCS and LSDS on IIS/Tomcat.

Thanks!

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Adam Stoller

Have you looked at what comes OOTB in the /iwadin/main/livesite/component branch?

Specifically in the Interwoven/Socail Computing directory?

More specifically, the "Manual RSS Viewer.component" and "Selectable RSS Viewer.component"?

Rick Poulin

Have you ever built something the first time without encountering at least one gotcha? Smiley Tongue

Your ideas are fine; this shouldn't be too hard to implement. Just identify whether the query string flexibility is something that the business actually needs and will use. If you do make it that flexible, restrict it to querying only one or two attributes, and put a max on the number of different categories that can be specified. Also, sanitize the inputs to guard against query injection, and maybe use a format like ?tags=tax,spending,healthcare to make the implementation easier.

Aside from that, have at it.

argh_teamsite

Hey Thanks for the response guys. Good to get confirmation.

@Ghoti - I have looked at those two. Are you suggesting creating an external that generates the internal RSS XML and using the Manual RSS Reader Component to capture that into the page? We might just do that. I had not connected those dots until I wondered where you were going with the question.

@RPoulin - Good thoughts. Will definitely be working with the business folks to get a reasonable number of permutations so we can cache efficiently.

Thanks,

Adam Stoller

I was not explicitly suggesting anything other than asking if you had looked at them since your original question seemed to indicate that you were looking to create a component for RSS.