[thelist] ASP blog-style news into an RDF file for syndication?

[aardvark]

> From: "Ryan J. Markel" <markel at planetmarkel.com>
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to take my ASP output and somehow twist
> it into an RDF file I can host in order to syndicate the content of my
> site.
[...] 
> I've been looking for a *simple* way to get my site blog content and
> output to an RDF file.  A *simple* rdf file.  The file at
> http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf is a great example.

well, if you're using ASP, i assume you're on IIS...

view the source on the slashdot RDF feed, and save that to your 
machine... that's now your template... everywhere there's /. 
content, you'll be replacing that with your blog content...

now, take your article listing page from your blog, and make a 
version of it that outputs to the screen *exactly* as you see the /. 
version... but with your content...

take that output as a string and pipe it to a text file with the .rdf 
extension... don't create an .rdf page dynamically with every call, 
that's just a lot of load, instead, automate that creation (perhaps 
you call a web page from home, or schedule its creation, 
whatver...) so the file gets updated at whatever interval you like...

make sure the MIME type for .rdf is set to text/xml...  (btw, if you 
get a chance, look at the X-Fry header sent by the /. server)

anyone who calls that .rdf file should get just what they need now...

that's the general gist... i leave the details of implementation to 
you... but it is surprisingly easy to create, and others here may 
have different techniques...

if i missed some step, whoops, it's late and the swiss cheese is 
going to my head...