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April 10, 2002

opmlRender: An Expanded Outline Rendering Macro

opmlRender: An Expanded Outline Rendering Macro.

I've added standard URL compliance and expanded/collapsed state rendering to renderCss, my previous attempt at using Frontier macros to render opml outlines. renderCss is born again as opmlRender, here is a full tutorial on how to use it. URL compliance can be fun: whose outlines are those ?

Status: break

4/9/02; 5:03:28 PM by JES -- I'm my own Googlewhack

Peter Sisk just emailed to tell me that I'm my own Googlewhack:

4/8/02; 10:23:23 PM by JES

Status: Good morning

4/9/02; 3:55:05 PM by DW -- Quieting down directory.opml

We've started noticing that the UserLand RCS slows down around the top of the hour, today I found out why. Everyone who's running Radio builds and upstreams their directory.opml every hour. This is a shame because the server no longer cares about this file and building it and upstreaming it every hour is a waste of resources on both ends. (We're starting to feel the effects on our RCS.)

So here's the plan:

4/9/02; 1:07:12 PM by DW

Of course, this is publishing time static rendering. For anything dynamic, XSLT is the way to go. Joshua Allen has a head start. [s l a m]