H2VX.com is feature complete. was Re: [uf-discuss] Concerning the Technorati pipes

Martin McEvoy martin at weborganics.co.uk
Mon Nov 2 14:16:17 PST 2009


Martin McEvoy wrote:
> Martin McEvoy wrote:
>> Tantek Çelik wrote:
>>> If folks write new XSLTs to handles more conversions, we can certainly
>>> take a look at setting them up (e.g. an hNews or hAtom +
>>> value-class-pattern to Atom or RSS converter).
>>>   
>> Transformr [1]  has implemented an hAtom + value-title [2]  to RSS2 
>> converter, you have to turn the tidying process off to parse 
>> value-title properly because because empty elements are stripped 
>> during tidying. If your documents are well formed XHTML you shouldn't 
>> have any problems. If you have to tidy your document then it is 
>> recommended that you add a non breaking space inside your value-title 
>> property eg:
>>
>> <span class="value-title" title="">&nbsp;</span>
>>
>> I know you may get an ugly tool tip if someone hovers over the space, 
>> but ....?
>>
>> You can point your hAtom page at http://transformr.co.uk/rss2/<your 
>> url>.
>>
>> some examples:
>>
>> http://transformr.co.uk/rss2/http://microformats.org/&tidy=no
>> http://transformr.co.uk/rss2/http://microformats.org/wiki/value-excerption-pattern&tidy=no 
>>
>>
>> [1] http://transformr.co.uk/
>> [2] 
>> http://microformats.org/wiki/value-excerption-pattern#Using_value-title_to_publish_machine-data 
>>
>>
>
> Sorry I forgot to add that it is also possible to extract a RSS2 
> enclosures (a podcast) by simply adding a rel-enclosure[1]  to hAtom. 
> example:
>
> <a rel="enclosure" type="audio/mpeg" href="...">today's podcast</a>.
>
> If you also wish to extract the required length attribute of a RSS2 
> enclosure you can pass that along with the type specifier
> example:
>
> <a rel="enclosure" type="type="audio/mpeg;length=22334669"" 
> href="...">today's podcast</a>.
>
> The length is the size of the file in bytes.
>
> Thanks.
>

Sigh! [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-enclosure :)


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