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<package key="rss-support" url="http://openacs.org/repository/apm/packages/rss-support" type="apm_service">
    <package-name>RSS Support</package-name>
    <pretty-plural>RSS Support</pretty-plural>
    <initial-install-p>f</initial-install-p>
    <singleton-p>t</singleton-p>
    <auto-mount>rss-support</auto-mount>

    <version name="0.3" url="http://openacs.org/repository/download/apm/rss-support-0.3.apm">
        <owner url="mailto:aegrumet@alum.mit.edu">Andrew Grumet</owner>
        <owner url="mailto:jerry@theashergroup.com">Jerry Asher</owner>
        <owner url="mailto:dave@thedesignexperience.org">Dave Bauer</owner>
        <summary>Service contracts and support for generating RSS feeds</summary>
        <release-date>2006-02-18</release-date>
        <vendor>OpenACS</vendor>
        <description format="text/html"> Basic support for RSS
generation and parsing.  RDF Site Summary (RSS) is a lightweight
multipurpose extensible metadata description and syndication format.
This package can be used to publish site content in a manner useful to
other websites and webservices.  &lt;p&gt; For each item (news event,
ticket, bboard message, ...) that you want to publish, you create a
property list that describes that item (url to item, title of item,
description of item, etc.). You pass a list of those items (and some
other parameters) to rss_gen, and it will generate your XML for you.
You can also implenent a set of functions that satisfy the RSS service
contracts and the RSS can be recreated from a scheduled procedure.

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href='http://www.google.com/search?q=rss+0.91'&gt;RSS 0.91 specification&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href='http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/files/specification.html'&gt;RSS 1.0 specification&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
</description>
        <maturity>0</maturity>

        <provides url="rss-support" version="0.3"/>
        <requires url="acs-kernel" version="5.3.1a1"/>

        <callbacks>
        </callbacks>
        <parameters>
            <parameter datatype="string"  min_n_values="1"  max_n_values="1"  name="RssGenOutputDirectory"  default="rss" description="The directory to which RSS files will be written, relative to the server root."/>
        </parameters>

    </version>
</package>
