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Re: Web site news to move to Haunt
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Eric Bavier |
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Re: Web site news to move to Haunt |
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Thu, 3 Nov 2016 22:29:43 -0500 |
On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 01:33:38 +0200
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
> Hello Guix!
>
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>
> > The goal is to manage news using Haunt, and to have a page to display
> > them on the web site, something nicer and more flexible than this:
> >
> > https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?group=guix
> >
> > And I already enjoy Haunt! :-)
>
> I’m done!
Looks great!
>
> Please visit the news pages and report anything wrong! Also, please
> test the feed.xml file; currently IceCat reports that it “does not
> appear to have any style information associated with it”, and thus
> doesn’t display it nicely. Maybe Haunt omits to emit (ah ha!) the
> doctype thingie?
IceCat reported the missing style for me on the first visit, but then
on a second visit seemed to apply some of its own default styling?
IDK. I was able to import it into my RSS reader.
>
> Because Savannah’s feeds only include the 20 newest entries¹, Assaf
> Gordon, who works on Savannah, kindly exported the raw Guix news
> database for me (54 entries).
>
> The database contains the input markup, not the XML that appears in the
> feed. Of course the markup is nothing like Markdown, CommonMark, etc.
>
> So I considered writing a parser in Scheme, but that turned out to be
> trickier than I thought, so I turned back to running Savane’s own parser
> (PHP!). Since I don’t have PHP on Guix, I ran it on another machine
> where it’s installed: PHP as a service. And since I couldn’t run all of
> Savane, I just hacked together ‘markup.php’ (attached). High-quality
> work.
>
> And then I reused the atom-parsing code that used to be in our (www)
> module to get the damn entries and emit them as SXML for Haunt (file
> attached). Phewww.
Sounds like fun ;)
`~Eric
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