Re: [syndication] Probably a FAQ: Multiple RSS feeds in one format?

[Bill Humphries <bill@whump.com>]

At 2:52 PM +0100 8/23/00, Simon Brooke wrote:
>I want to continue to use XSL-T to transform
>the RSS into end-user presentation, and my present solution is to use
>frames (e.g. <URL:http://www.amorgan.org.uk/> - both frames are XSL-T
>wrapped around RSS and generated on the fly). But this solution is messy
>- I would rather be generating a single page. So what I need is an XML
>format into which multiple RSS feeds can be encapsulated.

This is less a RSS/Syndication question than a XSL question. There are several ways to proceed:

1) Use server side programming to transform several 'chunks' on one page. 
2) Use XSLT's document() function to bring in the individual RSS feeds as node sets into your XSLT transform.
3) Use JavaScript to import the transformed chunks.

http://www.2roam.com/ uses method 1. We create a MSXML object with headlines. Load a transform into another MSXML object and transform the former with the later and write the result into the response.

http://honeybomb.dhs.org/gg.php is another example. The 'journal' entries are one XML document created using Blogger. The sidebar headlines are RSS feeds. All are transformed using http://p4lib.hk-go.to/ the PHP Sablotron extensions.

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