RSS news feeds

RSS news feeds
	Chapter 2. System module

RSS news feeds on the system level enable the technical administrator of the system to broadcast any messages he has to communicate via a RSS news feed. The news feed has two objectives:

any persons can subscribe to the RSS news feed via the subscription functionality of their browser (which automatically updates the news after a certain time period, e.g. every day)
the news can be shown in a web page where a piece of Java script can automatically read the news feed and display the news dynamically within the web page.

In order to implement the system RSS news feed, put the following piece HTML code into the <HEAD> section of your web page and also download the Java script file rss.js and put it into a directory called "javascripts" that must be in the same directory as your web page on the server.

<link href="/rss/de.xml" rel="alternate" title="RSS" type="application/rss+xml" />
<script src="/javascripts/rss.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script language="javascript"> window.onload = function(){ ReadRSS('/rss/de.xml','rssBodyTemplate','rssTitleTemplate');}</script>

If you do not want the system news to be language specific (language is "de" for German in the example above), then replace the above by this:

<link href="/rss.xml" rel="alternate" title="RSS" type="application/rss+xml" />
<script src="/javascripts/rss.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script language="javascript"> window.onload = function(){ ReadRSS('/rss.xml','rssBodyTemplate','rssTitleTemplate');}</script>

Then, on the position where you want the news to appear on your web page, insert the following code:

<div id="rssTitleTemplate"><h1>(::Title::)<br/></h1></div>
<div id="rssBodyTemplate">
<table> 
<tr><td>(::Pubdate::)&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(::Title::)</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;(::Description::)</td></tr> 
</table> 
<hr noshade/>
</div>


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