Monday, January 10, 2005

Coded

I'm mucking around all morning with MT RSS tags.  I was using a chunk of javascript to pull in delicious bookmarks before, but I wanted a bit more flexibility. Figured MT RSS would deliver. So I read around the net--mostly old entries from the 2.+ days--and came up with a few plugins I thought would do the trick: MT RSS and MT List.  Quasi-teaching-aims motivating me; been plugging away at a syllabus, rest of the pre-term drill. It's a course in critical research; we're going to aggregate like mad.

Now the plugins are running fine.  Together, they pull the feeds through a db cache on my server so as not to drain the site of origin site with each visit to EWM. But I can't figure out how to grab the date tag from the XML.  The dates are nested in Dublin Core tags.  I can't figure out how to tell the plugin to draw the date into the entry you see here (lower right). So I'm stuck.  Gonna quit before I overheat (or make this brand new nagging cold/s.throat worse).  Here's the code, culprit in bold, just for the helluvit:

 <MTList name="feeds">
http://del.icio.us/rss/dmueller
http://www.earthwidemoth.com/mt/index.xml
http://dwlt.net/tapestry/ripleys.rdf
</MTList>
<MTListLoop name="feeds">
<MTRSSFeed>
<div class="sidetitle"><a href="<$MTRSSFeedLink$>" target="blank"><$MTRSSFeedTitle$></a></div>
<div class="squish" align="center">Reassembled <lastBuildDate><$MTDate format="%B %d, %Y %I:%M %p"$></lastBuildDate><br/></div>
<ul><MTRSSFeedItems lastn="7">
<li><$MTRSSFeedItemElement name="date"$>: <a href="<$MTRSSFeedItemLink$>" target="blank"><MTFirstNWords n="4"><$MTRSSFeedItemTitle$></MTFirstNWords></a>: <MTFirstNWords n="7"...><MTRSSFeedItemDescription></MTFirstNWords></li>
</MTRSSFeedItems></ul>
</MTRSSFeed>
</MTListLoop></div>

Posted by dmueller at January 10, 2005 10:52 AM to On Weblogs