Re: Hello and Help

["wkearney99" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

--- In syndication@y..., "liliplanet" <liliplanet@y...> wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> Total newbie at this, yet have spent much time trying to figure 
this  
> out. Problem - I have the xml, rdf links for RSS feeds, now what 
> do I do to convert it to html and insert it onto my website. Have 
all 
> the modules installed, but just can't get my head around this 
> tech. Have read every possible article on this. So far, my vast 
> experience covers creating a RSS file and validating it. After that?
> 
> Please would you be so kind to point me in the right direction. 
> Thank You,
> (a little embarrased) Lilian

Nah, don't be embarrassed.  It's not as complicated as it seems.  
There are a number of reference, howto and other documents on 
Syndic8.com:
http://www.syndic8.com/documents.php

If you're looking to incorporate the contents of other RSS feeds into 
your own web pages, you have several choices.  One is let the client 
do this as they load the pages.  The other is to grab the data 
yourself and put it inside your own pages.  Letting the client do the 
work seems easier but it's going to run each and every time they load 
the page.  That's potentially rather slow.  It also puts a perhaps 
undesirable load on the source of the RSS file.

The HowTo section points to this tutorial:
http://www.webreference.com/perl/tutorial/8/

I've not used this so I can't vouch for it's value.  But it appears 
to be what you're after.  

Take a look at the various docs on the Syndic8 pages.  There's 
probably an answer in there.  That said, when you DO succeed in doing 
this, put it up on a website.  You can then put it up as a HowTo on 
the Syndic8 site.  

Hope this helps!

-Bill Kearney