[uf-discuss] Re: Possible hAtom or maybe hSummary Use Case

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux]

Sorry... that was suppose to have been off list :-)

On 5/30/07, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <supercanadian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Toby,
>
> (This is off list.)
>
> Putting your latest blog post in your signature (like you've done) is
> a really interesting idea!
>
> One could even do re-runs of older posts.
>
> An interesting way of getting people to you blog.
>
>
> See ya
>
> On 5/30/07, Toby A Inkster <mail at tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:
> > Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
> >
> > > BUT... how do they choose what goes into the RSS <description>
> > > element?  (Especially... when they want the RSS <description> element
> > > to be a summary... and NOT the full text of the post.)
> >
> > The way my CMS does it is:
> >
> >         1. There is a field in the database called "summary". If this is
> >            non-empty, this is the summary;
> >
> >         2. Otherwise, if the message contains an HTML comment:
> >            <!-- at SUMMARY@--> then it treats everything before that comment
> >            as being part of the summary;
> >
> >         3. Otherwise, it takes the first kilobyte of text, and
> >            performs various bits of trickery to ensure that it doesn't
> >            break a word in half and closes all its HTML elements properly;
> >
> >         4. If the above fails, it substitutes "Summary not available", or
> >            the equivalent in the same language as the article itself if
> >            possible.
> >
> > This mostly seems to work well, but I agree that <div class="hsummary">
> > might be a nice idea. If it existed, I'd probably nestle it between #1 and
> > #2 above, though it's somewhat harder to implement for a naive HTML parser
> > than #2 is.
> >
> > --
> > Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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>     Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.
>
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