I have been trying to get a better handle on emacs lisp and thought I might cut my teeth on an add-on for org-publish that would syndicate xml and/or rss feeds for org-publish projects and/or individual files/directories.
Because of its rich markup, org-mode has the potential to be a wonderful platform for creating syndicated content. I'm intrigued by the ideas behind blorg.el, but am not sure if that project is dead. (Any updates would be greatly appreciated!) For now, I simply want to code something that will create chronological feeds of headings (+ optional content) with the most recent inactive timestamps, either for the entire project or for individual pages. (I think this would be a nice way for people to get quick updates on current projects. E.g., if I flip an item to DONE, it would pop to the top of the feed.) One could optionally create fields of upcoming deadlines and scheduled items based on active, rather than inactive, timestamps. My own interest in this is to create announcement feeds for classes I teach. E.g., my students could subscribe to feeds that update them with news and relevant new content. Another idea: an option of generating blog-style html pages that aggregate timestamped content from several pages. My current plan is to control options through a org-publish-syndicate-alist that would offer the possibility of generating different feeds based on specified tags, TODO keywords, pages, directories, and/or category. (Not sure if I'll have use of these, but it would be nice, for instance, to be able to create a feed based on items in the subdirectory "western-civ" with the todo-keyword FEED, which would be setup to generate a timestamp.) I think this would also have the potential to aggregate tag content for an entire site: i.e., a possible option of creating individual feeds and index pages for all tagged content in a project, with x number of items per page/feed. Any thoughts/feedback? - Matt P.S. Let me warn you in advance that I'm doing this as a way of educating myself about emacs lisp, so please don't expect any quick progress. ---- Matt Lundin http://faculty.valpo.edu/mlundin/ _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
