Re: resource_feeder feedback

> I may have misunderstood or read too much into the use of :body in your
> example.  Taking a look at Mephisto, I see
>
>   xm << %{<content type="html">#{sanitize_feed_content
> article.body_html}</content>}
>
> Can you explain how :body was intended to work?

That Mephisto code was put in place because I had entities being
encoded twice.  I think it had to do with Textile encoding ampersands,
and then Builder was encoding it again.  It's ugly, and is a good
reason why I'm really interested in resource feeder.

Rather than looping through the resources and creating atom entries,
resource feeder lets you map attributes to atom elements.  By default,
it uses @resource.description to fill that in.  If you provide :item
=> { :description => :body }, then it uses @resource.body.  Finally,
you can pass a block and customize it even further:

:item => { :title => lambda { |r| ... } }

# or in my mock feed dsl:
entry.item do |resource|
  ...
end

> > I'm also discovering the importance of proper xml:base usage (or just
> > converting relative links to absolute links):
> > http://mephistoblog.com/assets/2006/9/26/SafariScreenSnapz003.png
>
> That's another one of the areas that is grossly underspecified with RSS
> 2.0.  If I read app/views/feed/_article.rxml correctly, the following
> would address the issue:
>
>    xm.entry "xml:base" => site.permalink_for(article) do ...

Oh, I'll try that.  Thanks.

> - Sam Ruby
>
> P.S.  Off topic for this mailing list, but I'm going to take a look at
> importing my weblog into Mephisto.  Be forewarned that I'm a tough
> customer to please.  I'm particularly unhappy about sites like
> mephistoblog.com that purport to be XHTML, but aren't even well formed
> XML as they contain strings like
>
>    <a href="/tips">Tips & Tricks</a>

Ouch!  I have a Google Group setup at
http://groups.google.com/group/MephistoBlog.  I'd love to hear all
about why Mephisto sucks :)

-- 
Rick Olson
http://weblog.techno-weenie.net
http://mephistoblog.com

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