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Thursday, April 29, 2004

XSL and your XML feed - Making a stream pretty:
Having been blown away by a feed from PubSub Concepts, I decided I too must take part in this miracle. I've become increasingly interested in RSS, RDF, XML or whatever format you want your data streamed. As of this writing I currently maintain exactly 60 feeds. 14 of which are my own creation [The content, with the exception of one, is not mine]. 
 
For those of you unfamiliar with XSL check out it's w3.org home. Basically, it allows you to add, subtract or simply stylize a XML, etc. feed. It uses simple logic, syntax that anyone who has done anything with CSS and maybe a little programming can pick up rather quickly. A couple hours later and I have adapted all my feeds to use it for browser viewing. For a better idea of what XSL is, check out an example [CSU, Chico - Events and Calendars Feed]. If you want to know what it would like without XSL view the page's source!
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