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icemountain: RSSing

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Where exactly is the RSS feed hosted? ie, where should the orange RSS tag be? I created a Dance Marathon blogsite to generate feeds, but where do these feeds go? The course homepage hosts the feeds to our class blogs, right? So would the elab-linux4 webpage be the host?

The RSS should be hosted on elab-linux4.  Now, I must note that the RSS is supposed to be generated from an xsql page transformed by xsl for you to get extra credit.  I will give some partial extra credit for getting a static feed to work (must be relevant to your project).

 

frankcc: my yahoo problem

frankcc: my yahoo problem

my yahoo fails to recognize the new title of the file and i had to change the file name in order for my yahoo to recognize the update .. is there a way better way that i could test out my RSS

Well, my.yahoo only updates about once an hour if you are lucky. You can either use the sage plug-in for firefox as we have been doing in class. You can also validate your feeds at feedvalidator.org.

reFeed

This is a test post to blogonaut.  Let's see how it works.

Hail to the Victors: Blogonaut: Hail to the Victors: So, I stand corrected...

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In commenting on Justin's idea, I was under the assumption that he was talking about a program that would allow multiple people to edit the same document in real time. So, if the person sitting next to you deleted a sentence in the same document that you had open on you screen, the change would happen on your screen in real time, right before your eyes. Is there any type of program that currently does this and furthermore, is this even practical?

Well, I did skip the real-time part, but the idea is really not so different for real time, and people do real time interaction over the Internet all the time.  Consider multiplayer online games or real-time bidding on auction sites.  Those are in real time or close, and editing text may even be less complex than multiplayer games.

M Go Blue: Form Display Question

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Depending on where we put the code, it will either display the "thank you" page and not enter data into the database, or it will enter data into the database and not display the "thank you" page.  But, it never does both at the same time.  Any advice?

It sounds like you are on the right track: you are getting things to work, just not how you want them to.  In the form element of the form you create there is an XSQL page named in the action attribute.  You need to associate an XSLT page with that XSQL page that displays thank-you when the insert has succeeded.

frankcc: help needed regrading the html code

Link: frankcc: help needed regrading the html code.

i have trouble with the picture which displays "the women's center of america" for our View2HTML.xsql.   since the query result only shows three columns and cuts off part of the picture.  In addition, for the title of the html page, how can i change it from 'Query results' to 'the women's center of america', the html code of

The picture seems fine.  The first column is mighty wide.  It seems your picture and page heading are in the first column.  Remove them from there and try puttting them in this template rule from View2HTML.xsl, like so:

<xsl:template match="Donor_Financial" mode="XSQLContents">
Code for displaying the picture
Code for displaying the page heading right underneath
<xsl:call-template name="CreateSimpleTable"/>
xsl:template>

You will need to change the title element in root.xsl to get that to work.  It should be obvious once you open the file.

thecrew: question on project again

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Nick and I have been working on the project again. We have got the dropdown to work, so now the forms look fabulous. However, we are not able to input the data correctly into our database by using our online forms. This is the error msg we receive:

I think Blog O'Rama mentions a good possibility.  Here's another take on what may be happening.  You have slightly different names for the html parameters and the bind variables.  Is capitalization excactly the same?  Is spelling perfectly correct?  Are you absolutely certain that you have an element in your html form named for the bind variable?

Smiling_Chen: Urgent question

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We have three tables which incurred the same repeating problems, such as the same id number and donor name will apear more than twice.  I checked the corresponding queries and thought that we might use the Distinct operator to solve the problem.

Use distinct if you want.  The issue is in using a form to INSERT data into multiple tables not displaying data from multiple tables.

Hail to the Victors: So, I stand corrected...

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In response to Justin’s post about real time revision collaboration, I agree that the notion is appealing, although it may cause more trouble than its worth. If two people were working off of the same file and were in disagreement about something, one of them could go and delete parts of the file without the other person having any record of the original version. However, I’ll give you that it would be really efficient.

As it turns out, there are two sorts of systems for document sharing currently in use.  One is the locking model like you describe for docushare.  The other i s a non-locking, resolve conflicts as they arise model.  In this latter model, multiple authors may check out document versions and alter them.  As long as the alterations don't conflict the documents can be re-merged in the end.  Well-known versions of this type of document sharing are CVS and subversion.  Wikis, a web based collaboration system, use cvs or subversion to manage the underlying document versioning.

I had hear ctools was going to add RSS capability.  Reading RSS is pretty generic and commodity-like at this stage.

maulin: wierd characters still unsolved

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Could you please tell me where exactly that line of code should be placed?

You need to put it where you are getting the value for the date element you want to get rid of the 0's from.  That is, you need to use it instead of using the default template to get the date value.  To do that I would write a template that specifically matched the element I wanted to strip the 0's out of.  Here's an example for an element called Date that I want to strip the 0's out of:

<xsl:template match="Date">
  <xsl:value-of select="substring-before(Date,' 0:')"/>
</xsl:template>

Now, any element called Date will no longer be handled by the default template.