Re: SourceForge RSS [Was: xmlroff website help wanted]

Tony Graham wrote:
> (Replying to part of Stefan's message)
> 
> Stefan Seefeld <[email protected]> writes:

>>Sorry, no. Doing a build locally, I get the content wrapped in
>>'<div class="rss">'. Is it the same <div> you see, just empty ?
> 
> 
> That is what I see.
> 
> I'm using the 2.5 version of the website stylesheets.

huh ? The first statement inside the custom-website.xsl file reads

   <xsl:import href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/website/2.4.1/xsl/tabular.xsl"/>

Are you not using this file ? But anyways, even if I replace '2.4.1' there by '2.5.0'
I get a 'correct' news listing.

> Looking at the stylesheets and the SourceForge RSS, it appears that
> the stylesheets are expecting the RSS to use namespaced elements and
> the SourceForge RSS doesn't.

yeah, you are talking about the 'rss.xsl' file that's shipped with the db-website
xsl distribution, right ? That appears indeed to be written for rss 1.0, while
sf.net provides rss 2.0 feeds. That's why I don't use the xsl templates from Norm,
but my own, which don't use the rss namespace.
I'm a bit lost now. Let me try on sf.net...

> SourceForge claims all sorts of wonderful compatibility and testing
> for correctness for its RSS feeds, so I don't know who's right and
> who's wrong about namespaces for RSS.

the docbook website xsl says it provides support for rss 1.0 (0.9x) feeds,
while sf.net provides rss 2.0 feeds. They may both be correct.

> The first step would be to copy the template for the <rss> element
> into the custom stylesheet and tweak the namespaces on the "select"
> and "match" attributes to make it work.

I thought that was what I had been doing all the time :-)
Is it possible that you forgot to apply the patch to the custom-website.xsl file ?

> Second step would be to submit a bug report or enhancement request to
> the DocBook project.

Yeah, I did that some weeks ago.

Regards,
		Stefan


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