Re: A question and a little praise

PyBlosxom doesn't do context-sensitive variable replacement.  I don't 
think it's a good solution to store variable values for all the variations 
of text and encoding in PyBlosxom, though if you want to do a plugin that 
does that, that's cool and not hard to do.

I use an rss2 renderer that Blake whipped up ages ago that I did some 
modifications to.  Pretty much you drop it in as a plugin and then that 
gives you an rss2 feed at $baseurl/index.xml that works well as far as I 
know.  I'm no RSS expert, though, so maybe it's got problems I don't know 
about.

As a side note, I'm of the opinion that building a renderer is the best 
solution for all syndication types (ATOM, RSS*, OPML, ...).  If we did 
that, then we could remove some icky code in PyBlosxom that does encoding 
if the content-type ends in xml which hoses folks who build their site in 
xhtml (there are long threads in regards to this issue in the mailing list 
archives).  Anyone who really wants to help out PyBlosxom, knows 
syndication formats, and has some free time could jump on this--that'd 
help all of us out a lot.

Anyhow, going back to Blake's RSS 2.0 plugin, I'll read through the code 
and make sure it's kosher and then get permission from Blake to post it to 
the registry.  I'm in Pittsburgh for the next couple of days, though, so 
the soonest this will happen is Monday.  I'm also uber-backlogged on 
email, so I've been dropping mail for the last two or three weeks in 
regards to pyblosxom issues.  Sorry bout that.

/will


On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Rune Morling wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
>
> Doesn't Nathan have a point?
>
> Nathan Bullock wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I was writing a story.rss2, flavour file. And in it I
>> needed the url of the current item so I used this,
>> $url$file_path, which seems to work fine except when
>> there are spaces in the filename. It leaves the spaces
>> in instead of escaping them like '%20' (I think that
>> is the proper url encoding). Is there a variable like
>> $file_path that has the proper escaping?
>
> Maybe someone with the proper connection to the force
> (and CVS commit access) could investigate the
> s/" "/"%20"/ issue/solution in fileentry.py?
>
> If this is a problem, it must be a general problem when it comes to
> referencing filenames in templates, or am I mistaken?
>
> I personally hold the opinion that there really is no reason
> it shouldn't 'just work(tm)' with blanks in filenames...
>
> Also, Nathan, I believe there exist a better solution than my pyrss2 plugin.
>
> I read a post on this list about someone having whipped up an rss2
> formatter thingy that doesn't use the template approach. Maybe someone
> here could kindly nudge you in the right direction :D
>
> Kind regards,
>
> - rune
>
>

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