Re: Publish atom feeds based on Org files

[Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:00:23 +0100, David Maus <dmaus@ictsoc.de> wrote:

> Carving another stone that might fit into the cathedral known as
> Emacs/Orgmode I am glad to present attached file org-atom.el that
> provides an exporting and a publishing function to create atom feeds
> based on Org files.

David,

many thanks for this.  I have been waiting for something like this for
a very long time now (but haven't had the time or knowledge to do it
myself unfortunately)!

I have played around with it and it works very well indeed.  

>  - use the w3c feed validator at http://validator.w3.org/feed/

The validation came through with flying colours as well.

The only thing missing in your documentation was how to make your
exported org (i.e. the html) file be recognised as an RSS feed by the
browsers.  I found that adding this to my org setup did the job:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+STYLE: <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="your page title here" href="the URL to the atom file here" />
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I've not played yet with integrating the creation of the atom file
with my normal publishing steps but will try soon.  However, simply
being able to export to atom manually and then publish as normal works
just fine.

I would definitely vote for org-atom.el to be included in the standard
org distribution!

Thanks again,
eric