[pmwiki-users] Newbie re: RSS

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:19:58AM -0500, Glenn Blalock wrote:
> I want users to be able to use an aggregator to see changes on a particular
> trail:
> 
> http://comppile.tamucc.edu/wiki/TestFeeds/HomePage
> 
> Using Google Reader and the suggested link format to read this feed
> 
> (http://comppile.tamucc.edu/wiki/TestFeeds/HomePage?action=rss)
> 
> I see only the Group / Page information and a date, with a link to see
> original item.  What I was hoping would happen is that I would see some
> summary of the text on the particular pages in the trail, perhaps the text
> that I've added, etc.  

Yes, I'd be hoping to see that as well.   Unfortunately, I haven't
figured out a good way to automatically summarize the text of the page,
or even to summarize the recent edits to the page.  I'm very open
for suggestions on this.

> Is there a way for me to provide the feed with information from that pages,
> other than the title and a link to the original?

?action=rss will report the value of any (:description ...:) markup that
happens to be in the pages.

Pm