Using reddot to make a podcast

[dino]

Hi,
Has anyone successfully used reddot to generate a podcast xml version
of a web page with multiple media links? Either using an xml variant
or some other trickery?
What I'm trying to do: we have a video page template, with a container
for adding video items. Each video item body template has a video link
(with a lightboxed jw player) and a title and description, a few other
placeholders. I'll probably be using keywords to attach the video
items to the master page, so we'll have a Environmental Law video page
that will pull all the items with the Environment keyword, a Criminal
Law, page, etc. I'm looking for the best way to have reddot take all
the same content and simultaneously publish an xml file, formatted for
podcasting.
Has anyone done this? Any tips before I go down the variant path?
Thanks,
-Dino

[heiko]

Hi,
you can probably get around that without using variants (and I would
recommend to do so if this is the only other variant in the project).
I would use a list instead of a container and let the overview-page
pull the contents ("transfer from connected pages" or something along
those lines) . This way, you can use a new template (the RSS feed)
with another list, reference the original list or connect it to a
keyword like "Environment-Podcast" and display the pulled contents in
a RSS-manner in that template.
If you want to continue using the container, you would probably have
to go with project variants (not sure though).
cheers
Heiko

[dino]

Hey, I finally got around to building this out, and wanted to thank
you, this approach is mostly working, with just one problem:
-Sharing the description txt element is problematic, unless I use a
short blurb that needs zero formatting, an stf. But we're going to
need multiple paragraphs for at least half this stuff. If someone
wants a carriage return, then the xml will have html in it. Any ideas
for how to get around this?
Just so everyone understands what I'm trying to do: I have an html
page and a xml (podcast rss feed) page, sharing the same content
elements. What I need is for the text elements that are shared, for
the minimal amount of markup that they would contain, the tags would
need to be converted to <p> , </p> , etc.

Thanks,
-Dino

On Nov 5, 1:57 am, heiko <heikosebastian.fr...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> you can probably get around that without using variants (and I would
> recommend to do so if this is the only other variant in the project).
> I would use a list instead of a container and let the overview-page
> pull the contents ("transfer from connected pages" or something along
> those lines) . This way, you can use a new template (the RSS feed)
> with another list, reference the original list or connect it to a
> keyword like "Environment-Podcast" and display the pulled contents in
> a RSS-manner in that template.
> If you want to continue using the container, you would probably have
> to go with project variants (not sure though).
> cheers
> Heiko
>
> On Nov 5, 5:53 am, dino <ldj5...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,

> > Has anyone successfully used reddot to generate apodcastxml version

[heiko]

You may want to look at this:
http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users/browse_thread/thread/1f9570f7f4277a4f/
and more on render tags here:
http://www.reddotcmsblog.com/digging-deeper-with-navigation-manager-render-tags-%E2%80%93-a-beginner%E2%80%99s-guide
http://www.reddotcmsblog.com/render-tags-an-overview

Or a pragmatic and quick solution would be to use CDATA for the
description. Not the most elegant way but valid RSS AFAIK...

Cheers,
Heiko

[markus giesen]

Or fresh and new use this article / template as a base:
http://bit.ly/4P1i9X

Credits go to Kim for coding!

On 24 Nov., 12:16, heiko <heikosebastian.fr...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> You may want to look at this:http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users/browse_thread/thread/...
> and more on render tags here:http://www.reddotcmsblog.com/digging-deeper-with-navigation-manager-r...http://www.reddotcmsblog.com/render-tags-an-overview

[Dino Johnson]

Thanks to both of you, I now have a few approaches to play around with.

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