Print

[BenJeremy]

OK, we all know X-S' newsfeeds, what about others?

Post your links here and experience. The links should be to http server with complete xml files in rss format.

As some sites mangle these format, I have not had time to clean up support - but will in the 0.9n.1 release.

This is Xbox-Scene's RSS newsfeed format:

CODE

:    :    ...     :      :   :   :

Ones in similar format should work great. If the format is different, let me know here!!

[XBOX War3z]

dunno if anyone uses this, but maybe some other sites do it this way too
so anyways
http://www.php.net/news.rss

[koldfuzion]

Anyone interested in the Most Recent MXM skin listing?

http://www.allxboxskins.com/rssmxm.xml

I can give you guys the thumbnails too if you want them.

Does the format need to be changed, BJ ?


What about some kind of community feed for MXM? I could create a quick page



This post has been edited by koldfuzion: Jul 17 2003, 01:47 AM

[BenJeremy]

QUOTE (koldfuzion @ Jul 16 2003, 11:41 PM)

Anyone interested in the Most Recent MXM skin listing? http://www.allxboxskins.com/rssmxm.xml I can give you guys the thumbnails too if you want them. Does the format need to be changed, BJ ? What about some kind of community feed for MXM? I could create a quick page

That format should work fine....

Yeah, I'm sorry I didn't post that    I knew there was a good one I was missing.


Trying to get that php.net feed to work, and I get a "301 Document moved permanently to here" and "here" is a link to the EXACT SAME PLACE I just queried for the file! Yet, IE brings up the XML...... Arrggghhhh.... Gotta love it when web servers throw curveballs at simple clients!

[whoknew]

Maybe you could trick the server into thinking MXM is IE? or does the problem lie elsewhere?

[BenJeremy]

QUOTE (whoknew @ Jul 17 2003, 12:09 AM)

Maybe you could trick the server into thinking MXM is IE? or does the problem lie elsewhere?

I don't know. The protocol is basic "1.0" http - no headers. I may have to handle headers and such, but that will take a while. I'll play with a few other feeds and see what comes up.

Basically, some feeds will be very stubborn, and not work, even if you can read them in IE, thanks to server quirks.

[koldfuzion]

i added the author and preview image in case anyone was interested in it.

[BenJeremy]

QUOTE (koldfuzion @ Jul 17 2003, 01:10 AM)

i added the author and preview image in case anyone was interested in it.

Cool... I plan on expanding support for the different newsfeed fields and ways to display them.


The system is actually capable of handling multiple newsfeeds, too...

[IHG]

http://xbins.org/xbins.xml So that we'll know when a new MXM comes out.

[jinx_removing]

BJ:  Awesome dashboard.  It is simply the best.

I've been curious about this RSS feature as I don't know much about it.  How does one integrate the RSS stuff into mxm.xml or menu.xml -- or, is it its own XML file?  Does anyone have a working example?  If this provides what I think it will to my dashboard, that'd be awesome.

Any help / documentation would be greatly appreciated.  I've checked the docs that bundle with MXM and have had no luck finding info.

Thanks everyone.

-Jinx

[BenJeremy]

QUOTE (jinx_removing @ Jul 22 2003, 04:35 AM)

BJ:  Awesome dashboard.  It is simply the best. I've been curious about this RSS feature as I don't know much about it.  How does one integrate the RSS stuff into mxm.xml or menu.xml -- or, is it its own XML file?  Does anyone have a working example?  If this provides what I think it will to my dashboard, that'd be awesome. Any help / documentation would be greatly appreciated.  I've checked the docs that bundle with MXM and have had no luck finding info. Thanks everyone. -Jinx

It's detailed a bit in the ReadMe.txt:

QUOTE

* Some Newsfeed capability...   Add a Newsfeed node into the Config node of MXM.xml:   <Config>     :   :    <Newsfeed name="user">     <Global>True</Global>     <RotateChannels>False</RotateChannels>     <URL>http://www.xbox-scen...scene.xml</URL>     <UpdateIntervalMin>28</UpdateIntervalMin>     <RotateItemInterval>10</RotateItemInterval>    </Newsfeed>     :   :   </Config>   Access it with a text source of "newsfeed"   The user MUST have a proper DNS defined, otherwise, they have to use the dotted 'numeric' IP for the server.

Skins need to have a Text Element with source of "newsfeed" which will cycle between Titles in the supplied newsfeed(s). It will support more than one newsfeed, BTW.

I will make it much more flexible when it gets enough testing, and is relatively solid.

[leftyfb]

well, not sure about rdf .. i know X-S's RSS feed is compatible with the RDF plugin in trillian, so maybe an RSS reader will be able to read RDF.

http://www.slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf

[BenJeremy]

QUOTE (leftyfb @ Jul 22 2003, 07:12 AM)

well, not sure about rdf .. i know X-S's RSS feed is compatible with the RDF plugin in trillian, so maybe an RSS reader will be able to read RDF. http://www.slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf

I did a little shuffling, and it SHOULD be able to read that newsfeed... try it and see, I will do some more testing just before I release n.2

[jinx_removing]

Thanks!  Got it working, but I have one oustanding issue (and I'm sure it's easy to solve):

Currenlty I am using xbins.org/xbins.xml as my news feed and I can't get the news item to rotate to the next item.  Here's the MXM.XML settings:

QUOTE

<Newsfeed name="newsfeed">     <Global>True</Global>     <RotateChannels>True</RotateChannels>     <URL>http://xbins.org/xbins.xml</URL>     <UpdateIntervalMin>28</UpdateIntervalMin>     <RotateItemInterval>1</RotateItemInterval> </Newsfeed>

I would think that RotateItemInterval would be the value to switch the visible news item...?

Sorry to bother -- thanks for the help.


This post has been edited by jinx_removing: Jul 22 2003, 01:59 PM

[chilin_dude]

Would be great to be able to have MULTIPLE news feeds and be able to  choos which ever you want from in MXM!