XML news source

Other types of input

Until now our pipelines have all started with the RequestGenerator. Let's see a different example, where we retrieve an external XML document via HTTP.

This example requires access to the http://codeconsult.ch/bertrand/index.rdf XML newsfeed.

View the result in your browser: xmlnews.html

Sitemap excerpt

<map:match id="xmlNews" pattern="xmlnews.html">

<map:generate src="http://codeconsult.ch/bertrand/index.rdf"/>

<map:transform src="xsl/news-to-html.xsl"/>

<map:transform src="xsl/html-styling.xsl"/>

<map:serialize type="html"/>

</map:match>

XSL transform

Here we show only the conversion of rss:item elements

<xsl:template name="rssItem" match="rss:item">

<li>

<xsl:value-of select="rss:title"/>

</a>

</li>

</xsl:template>

Typical output

<html>

<head>

</head>

<body>

<ul/>

<p class="footer"> This footer has been added by html-styling.xsl </p>

</body>

</html>