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Friday, June 6, 2008

Camp Dolomites Offers Plenty

Just found out about Camp Dolomites, a multi-sport operation in Panchia' in Trentino, Italy. It's an awesome location for just about any kind of cycling you'd ever want to do. From club rides with the locals, to heavy mountain training up and down the spine of the Dolomites. The programs are run out of an inn, where the operating family has a passion for bikes. Check out the Albergo Panaramo, then check out their cycling photos (captions in italian). Looks like an awesome place to get your italian cycling fix.

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Export RSS to HTML
If you wish to dress up the feed's appearance you can use a template exporting the feed as HTML or an HTML table. Publishers can incorporate exported tables into an HTML template using a server-side include. Each time the feed is updated, the feed will need to be exported to HTML and uploaded along with the feed. Though this only takes a few moments, exporting RSS to HTML does require webmaster intervention to update the content. The end result, though, is a complete web page with an RSS feed in it that will be search engine-friendly.


FeedForAll - FeedForAll allows users to export RSS feeds from RSS to HTML. The look of the HTML can be modified to match an existing website's design.
http://www.feedforall.com


Using Services
There are a number of services available that host and display RSS feeds, in many cases free of charge. Because these services operate on a different domain server there is little benefit to end-users displaying their feeds in this fashion. That said, the services are generally free of charge, so you get what you pay for.


RSS2HTML.com - Select a layout, color scheme and enter the URL of the feed. A web page URL will be generated that will display the feed in the selected scheme.
http://www.rss2html.com


FeedBurner - FeedBurner provides a number of online services. Among them is a service that displays RSS feeds on a website.
http://www.feedburner.com


Using XSL to Display RSS
Although using XSL and CSS stylesheets to display XML directly is easy to understand in theory, it is rather tricky to implement in the real world and is very tough for novices to use successfully. Webmasters must be fairly familiar with CSS and XSL to have the formatting work well, and webmasters then have to address browser incompatibilities and exceptions. As a result, not a lot of resources or services yet exist to display RSS using XSL.