Name
mod_slash
Synopsis
Slash is the software originally written to run the popular technology news site, Slashdot. It has spread quite far lately, and now hundreds of sites use it for their content management system. Slash’s unique features do not fit into the core RSS 1.0 specification, so Rael Dornfest and Chris Nandor wrote this module. The features are most easily understood after a look at a Slash-based site, so go over to http://www.slashdot.org to see what’s happening.
Namespace
The
namespace prefix is
slash:, and the identifying URI is
http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/. Hence:
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
>Elements
All the
mod_slash elements are subelements of
item. They are all mandatory.
-
slash:section The title of the section in which the article appears.
-
slash:department The title of the department in which the article appears (in most Slash sites, this title is a joke).
-
slash:comments The number of comments attached to an article.
-
slash:hit_parade A comma-separated list of the number of comments displayable at each karma threshold (this will make sense to you if you look at a Slash-based site). There should be seven figures, matching karma thresholds of -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Example
Example 7-17. An item element containing mod_slash
<item rdf:about="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/01/164242"> <title>LotR Two Towers Trailer Online</title> ...