Package: collective.syndication
Table of ContentsLife, the Universe, and EverythingMostly HarmlessDon’t PanicInstallationFeedsAtomiTunesNewsML 1RSS 1.0 (RDF Site Summary)RSS 2.0Share and EnjoyThere’s a frood who really knows where his towel is1.0b3 (2014-02-04)1.0b2 (2014-01-23)1.0b1 (2013-09-03)1.0a4 (2013-03-27)1.0a3 (2013-03-21)1.0a2 (2013-01-15)1.0a1 (2013-01-10)Life, the Universe, and Everythingcollective.syndicationimproves standard syndication on Plone sites by
providing 5 feed types:Atom, iTunes,NewsML 1,RSS 1.0andRSS
2.0.This package is a backport for Plone 4.1 and 4.2 ofNathan Van Gheem’sImproved SyndicationPLIP implementation made for Plone 4.3.Mostly HarmlessGot an idea? Found a bug? Let us know byopening a support ticket.Don’t PanicInstallationTo enable this product in a buildout-based installation:Edit your buildout.cfg and addcollective.syndicationto the list
of eggs to install:[buildout]
...
eggs =
    collective.syndicationAfter updating the configuration you need to run ‘’bin/buildout’’, which will
take care of updating your system.Go to the ‘Site Setup’ page in a Plone site and click on the ‘Add-ons’ link.Check the box next tocollective.syndicationand click the ‘Activate’
button.NoteYou may have to empty your browser cache and save your resource registries
in order to see the effects of the product installation.FeedsAtomAtom is an XML-based document format that describes lists of related
information known as “feeds”. Feeds are composed of a number of items, known
as “entries”, each with an extensible set of attached metadata. For example,
each entry has a title.The primary use case that Atom addresses is the syndication of Web content
such as weblogs and news headlines to Web sites as well as directly to user
agents.Atom feeds have multipleadvantagesover RSS feeds.iTunesTBD.NewsML 1NewsML 1 is an XML standard designed to provide a media-independent,
structural framework for multi-media news.In this package, we implement part of the standard, to be usable by MSN.
There’s no online reference on how MSN expects data, just a PDF included
in the docs folder of this package.RSS 1.0 (RDF Site Summary)RDF Site Summary is a lightweight multipurpose extensible metadata description
and syndication format. RSS is an XML application, conforms to the W3C’s RDF
Specification and is extensible via XML-namespace and/or RDF based
modularization.RSS 2.0TBD.Share and Enjoycollective.syndicationwould not have been possible without the
contribution of the following people:Nathan Van GheemGonzalo AlmeidaFranco PellegriniHéctor VelardeJuan Pablo GiménezYou can find an updated list of package contributors onGitHub.Development sponsored by Open Multimedia.There’s a frood who really knows where his towel is1.0b3 (2014-02-04)Fix a problem with ViewPageTemplateFile overriding the Content-Type header,
now we set the header after rendering the body, this way third party products
can’t break the feeds Content-Type. [jpgimenez]1.0b2 (2014-01-23)Obey limit parameter on feeds (fixes#17). [jpgimenez]Fix a typo in URLs pointing to files (closes#19). [jpgimenez]Implement rendering of body in Atom feeds (closes#18). [jpgimenez]Change ‘Render Body’ future to render the content-core macro, not just the body field. [jpgimenez]1.0b1 (2013-09-03)Replace beautifulsoup4 with lxml. [jpgimenez]Fix a bug with body text coming from dexterity content. [jpgimenez]1.0a4 (2013-03-27)(Bugfix) Return proper headers with the feeds. [frapell]1.0a3 (2013-03-21)Don’t use an interface as filtering mechanism to get NewsML items. [frapell]1.0a2 (2013-01-15)Implement NewsML 1 syndication. [frapell]1.0a1 (2013-01-10)Initial release.