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Karl
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: Phoenix
Insane since: Jul 2001

posted posted 09-07-2005 03:10

I am looking for an RSS Feed that simply broadcasts the current date and time.
Has anyone seen such a thing?

Karl..

poi
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: France
Insane since: Jun 2002

posted posted 09-07-2005 07:38

You know you can retrieve the current date on Server side ( when a page is generated ) and Client side ( in realtime ). You can well make a server side script which once requested outputs the date with the needed tags and sets the Content-type header to application/rss+xml and voilà. It's the matter of few minutes.

Karl
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: Phoenix
Insane since: Jul 2001

posted posted 09-07-2005 16:56

This is a client side app. Actually, it is XML with stylesheet reference. The XML doc is browsed locally and relies on IE to parse the XML with the stylesheet. I need the current date and time for the XML... So, that's it! Was hoping I could request the current date and time by an RSS feed (from stylesheet I would reference this external RSS feed).

Emperor
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Cell 53, East Wing
Insane since: Jul 2001

posted posted 09-07-2005 17:34

If you have access to server-side scripting you could set up this yourself.

Then again couldn't you just use client-side scripting - ECMAScript or JavaScript?

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Karl
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: Phoenix
Insane since: Jul 2001

posted posted 09-07-2005 19:21

I'm not familiar with embeding javascript into XML... again, I need the Current DATE/TIME available to the stylesheet for parsing, need to compare dates in my XML source, see if they are current etc... So, If I can embed client-side javascript into my stylesheet, and then upon parsing of the XML this value is available, that would be fine.

THE MODEL:

XML SOURCE ... XSL SOURCE

IE user --> browses (locally) to XML source, xml transformed into XSL source.


POTENTIAL MODEL:

HTML Page ... XML SOURCE ... XSL SOURCE

IE user --> browses (locally) to HTML source, client-side java scripting uses XML and XSLT Active X components to handle the transformation and to pass additional parameters (current date & time) to the XSLT Parser.

(first model is the simplest approach...)
What are your thoughts?



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