Re: w3cdate in flavour head

Steven Armstrong <[email protected]> Tue, 24 May 2005 23:24:41 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.pyblosxom.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 05/23/05 18:13, Doug Ransom wrote:
> The modified element in the atom flavor is not being populated with the w3cdate.
> http://ransom.dyndns.ws/doug/index.syndicate
> this is the head.syndicate file, copied from the atom flavour head.
> 
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet href="http://ransom.dyndns.ws/syndicate.css" type="text/css"?>
> <feed xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#" xmlns:ent="http://www.purl.org/NET/ENT/1.0/" version="1.0">
>   <title>$blog_title</title>
>   <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="$url" />
>   <modified>$w3cdate</modified>
>   <!-- optional elements -->
>   <tagline></tagline>
>   <generator>$base_url</generator>
> 
> I can’t see how this w3cdate would ever be populated, since w3cdate seems to be a story variable.  Is there a trick I am missing?
> 
> 
> Doug Ransom
> 

Hi Doug

I've hacked my version of w3cdate for just that reason. See attachment.
You can use $lastmodified_w3cdate in your head.atom flavour.

hth
cheers
Steven

w3cdate.py (text/x-python, 1.8 KB)

"""
Add a 'w3cdate' key to every entry -- this contains the date in ISO8601 format

WARNING: you must have PyXML installed as part of your python installation 
in order for this plugin to work

Place this plugin early in your load_plugins list, so that the w3cdate will
be available to subsequent plugins
"""
__author__ = "Ted Leung <[email protected]>"
__version__ = "$Id:"
__copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2003 Ted Leung"
__license__ = "Python"

import xml.utils.iso8601
import time
import rfc822
from Pyblosxom import tools

def cb_prepare(args):
    request = args['request']
    data = request.getData()
    try:
        newest_entry = data.get("entry_list", [])[0]
        time_tuple = newest_entry['timetuple']

        if time_tuple: # /sar: in my setup this can be None
            tzoffset = time.timezone
            # if is_dst flag set, adjust for daylight savings time
            if time_tuple[8] == 1:
                tzoffset = time.altzone
            t = time.mktime(time_tuple)
            request.addData({
                'lastmodified_w3cdate': xml.utils.iso8601.tostring(t,tzoffset),
                'lastmodified_rfc822date': rfc822.formatdate(t)
            })
    except:
        #tools.log_exception()
        pass

    return args


def cb_story(args):
    entry = args['entry']
    time_tuple = entry['timetuple']

    if time_tuple: # /sa: in my setup this can be None
        tzoffset = time.timezone
        # if is_dst flag set, adjust for daylight savings time
        if time_tuple[8] == 1:
            tzoffset = time.altzone
        t = time.mktime(time_tuple)
        entry['w3cdate'] = xml.utils.iso8601.tostring(t,tzoffset)
        # rfc822 date for rss feed
        entry['rfc822date'] = rfc822.formatdate(t)

    return args