July 2002
Beginner to intermediate
504 pages
12h 56m
English
Content preview from Cocoon: Building XML Applications
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Which Data Sources?
After defining the functionality of the first version, you will take a look at the data you want to integrate. To make the portal interesting and up to date, you will integrate “live” information. When a user logs on to the portal, the portal will access the news site and fetch the news the user has requested.
Many news sites already offer their information in an XML format. You will structure the application so that you can add additional news feeds yourself as well. To do this, we have opted for news feeds that return their data in a standard format, RSS. RSS stands for Resource Description Framework (RDF) Site Summary. It is designed as an easy-to-use format for syndication. The current version is 1.0, but at the time ...