RSS weather ticker rules

[Jason]

Here's the serialized rules for an RSS ticker feed of weather from
rssweather.com. The RSS from that site is free of markup and treats
each day's forecast as a separate item in the feed, resulting in a
nice looping feed of weather information in your ticker area. Get
your RSS URL from rssweather.com and follow the instructions for
creating dynamic content, using this rule set:

a:4:{s:7:"type_id";i:2;s:17:"items_per_content";i:1;s:9:"max_items";i:
0;s:6:"repeat";a:3:{s:5:"xpath";s:12:"channel/item";s:8:"template";s:
23:"<i>%%1%%</i><br />%%2%%";s:9:"bailiwick";a:2:{i:0;a:3:{s:2:"id";i:
1;s:4:"type";s:3:"xml";s:5:"value";s:5:"title";}i:1;a:3:{s:2:"id";i:
2;s:4:"type";s:3:"xml";s:5:"value";s:11:"description";}}}}}

You'll see that I've made the title appear in italics, followed by a
line break then the weather item. Hope you like it!

[Scott Kiser]

How cool is this?? Thanks Jason!

(sent from my mobile phone)

--Scott Kiser
Network, Telecom and Systems
Ivy Tech Community College - Northeast

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[Stephen Lester]

That doesn't seem to work for me. How about you Scott?
I'm using this rss link
http://www.rssweather.com/wx/us/ga/atlanta/rss.php

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Stephen Lester - RHCT, CCNA, MCP
System Administrator - Systems Support Specialist I
School of Physics - Georgia Tech

[Scott Kiser]

The URL does not yield much when you view it in a web browser, but when you view the source you can see the data.  I will create the feed in Concerto and respond again after I've tested it. 

[Scott Kiser]

Aha!  Figured it out... the way the rule was written is to dump RSS items as ticker items, which doesn't work well in my template.  :)  I altered the rule to create text items (type 1) and to give a clear headline to each item. See if this ruleset works for you Stephen: 

a:4:{s:7:"type_id";i:2;s:17:"items_per_content";i:1;s:9:"max_items";i:
0;s:6:"repeat";a:3:{s:5:"xpath";s:12:"channel/item";s:8:"template";s:
23:"<i>%%1%%</i><br />%%2%%";s:9:"bailiwick";a:2:{i:0;a:3:{s:2:"id";i:
1;s:4:"type";s:3:"xml";s:5:"value";s:5:"title";}i:1;a:3:{s:2:"id";i:
2;s:4:"type";s:3:"xml";s:5:"value";s:11:"description";}}}}}

[Scott Kiser]

Oh frak!  I pasted the old ruleset, sorry! 

Here's the way it actually looks in my database:

a:4:{s:7:"type_id";i:1;s:17:"items_per_content";i:1;s:9:"max_items";i:0;s:6:"repeat";a:3:{s:5:"xpath";s:12:"channel/item";s:8:"template";s:32:"<h3><i>%%1%%</i></h3><br />%%2%%";s:9:"bailiwick";a:2:{i:0;a:3:{s:2:"id";i:1;s:4:"type";s:3:"xml";s:5:"value";s:5:"title";}i:1;a:3:{s:2:"id";i:2;s:4:"type";s:3:"xml";s:5:"value";s:11:"description";}}}}}

[Stephen Lester]

ok that seems to work but it is formated for some large text. i'll have to mess around with it and see what I can do. but something is better then nothing.

[sylvain prevost]

heloo,

 

what is the type of the zone i have to put to have the rss feed on the screen (in the xml template)?