changing rss-skins
changes in {...}.antville.org and {...}.antville.org (that is the skin for rendering a rss feed and a single rss item) are not accepted by the renderer.
does one know why this is so or why these skins are not used by the renderer?
changes in {...}.antville.org and {...}.antville.org (that is the skin for rendering a rss feed and a single rss item) are not accepted by the renderer.
does one know why this is so or why these skins are not used by the renderer?
aemkei
hmm. got the same problems. but for me it seems that changes in the rss skin works but not in the rssItem skin.
tobi Verwaltung
this is kind of tricky and needs some understanding of how antville / helma works.
the changes in the site's rss skin should apply also in your case. this is the very skin to render the main body of your site's rss feed. i verified this in my own site and it works as it should.
however, the item skin you refer to above, belongs to the root site's rss feed (ie. the list of antville weblogs with their last update timestamps) – don't worry, you can actually modify this skin but it won't have any effect on the antville rss feed because the root site actions do not care about a site's modified skins.
so if you want to change the rss items of your site you need to edit
http://{...}.antville.org/skins/edit?proto=story&name=rssItem
and you should be fine.
dm42
unfortunately it doesn't work too. could it be a matter of server-side caching ?
tobi Verwaltung
i tested this myself and it worked for me. could you be a little bit more specific?
dm42
ok, thanks - my fault :(
i tried to render a textfield
(that btw. contains a macro itself - like so
)- but it does not show up in the output, the whole macro is omitted
[Macro not allowed in sandbox: param.text]from
http://mks.antville.org/skins/edit?proto=story&name=rssItem
tobi Verwaltung
is this another problem you have? if so i don't understand the whole issue but already can tell that macros within macros never will be rendered. this is a limitation by purpose to avoid complex skin structures.
dm42
i don't want the macro to be rendered - i just want to display the contents of the textfield (which happens to be a macro)
maybe there is a directive that lets me display the content "as is" ? (analog to encoding="xml" ...)
tobi Verwaltung
i think the issue here is that images are not displayed in rss items. in fact, any markup is removed from an rss item. this is kind of our attitude towards what rss should provide.