Friday, February 04, 2005

RSS to Webpart Transform

x5 Windows SharePoint Services RSS

"XSL converts RSS to a native Windows SharePoint Services DataViewWebPart DWP file.

No binaries, installation or server configuration necessary.
Supports RSS versions 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, and 2.0.
Supports the Atom Syndication Format 0.3.
Supports Microsoft's Channel Definition Format.
Html output is similar to the links list summary view.
Title, Description, and DetailLink come from the RSS channel element.
RSS 2.0's time to live attribute or RSS 1.0's syndication module are used to determine cache time for the webpart.
Please email me any suggestions/bugs/fixes.
Absolutely free: MIT License.

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This is a pretty cool. Enter the URL for a RSS feed and download the DWP for a webpart of that feed. Sure there are other RSS readers for SharePoint, but the tech behind this one what is pretty cool.

XSL is used to transform the feed into a DWP, which can be downloaded too.

(via Fear and Loathing - Zero touch RSS Web Part)

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