RSS Feeder Help

Discussion in 'Programming' started by briz_dad, Jan 14, 2009.

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    I am working with a developer for an RSS page for a publication. (I am a front end person).

    We currently are having trouble with the RSS List Item limitation, especially in regard to a parent item such as the homepage.

    I have noticed that the NYTimes RSS Landing Page (nytimes.com/rss) is successfully dealing with a similar situation.

    For instance, they have a Parent Feed for “Arts” with the child feeds, “Design”, “Music” and “Television News”.

    Can someone give me some advice that I may pass on to our developer regarding the algorithm used for Parent and Children feeds?

    Here is what they (developer) passed to me:

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    Let's say there is a limit. in the case of "New", let's say the limit is 40 Feed Items.

    Now, let's say that child Feeds have a limit of 20.

    Thus we have a scenario:

    Child1 = 20 Feed Items
    Child2 = 20 Feed Items
    Child3 = 20 Feed Items
    Child4 = 20 Feed Items
    Child5 = 10 Feed Items
    Child6 = 20 Feeds Items

    The total 110 Feed Items.

    Yet, "New" has a Limit of Displaying 40 Feed Items. Tell me please, what algorithm do we use to determine distribution ratio of children to include in the parent?

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    I was wondering if the limitation could be a date range but that seemed to go nowhere...
     
    briz_dad, Jan 14, 2009 IP