[wp-hackers] XSLT: Sample implementation

[Owen Winkler]

Matt Read wrote:
> On January 30, 2006 01:14 pm, David House wrote:
>> Right. Now we need an implementation.
> 
> Here's a diff for wp-atom.php to do just such that. Sends text/xml if the 
> user-agent doesn't accept application/atom+xml.

Why I like this idea:

It shouldn't break things- Clients may care to ask for a specific 
mimetype, but in the end, they're likely to accept anything as long as 
it's XML-valid.  Readers that ask for the non-browser mimetypes will get 
them.

It lets us put browser-targetted content into the feeds- Now, since 
text/xml is served to browsers, we can put in the XSLT stuff that makes 
the feed prettier in some browsers.  (I still like my own solution, 
which is to not display the feed data at all, instead displaying 
two-frame frameset: A top frame with a "this is a feed, use a 
feedreader" notice, and the bottom frame with the actual blog home page 
in it.)

It should make proponents of feed mimetypes happy - Why?  Because it 
should promote the use of the correct mimetype for requesting feeds.

Indeed, Matt's other code (as seen in a pastebin) is even better, 
because it decides what feed format to present to a client based on the 
Accept request header and not the request URI.  So if your client likes 
Atom best, it would request from http://example.com/feed and get Atom. 
A different client could point at the same URI and get RSS 2.0 or RDF, 
depending on the q of the Accept.  Very nifty.

If interested parties people could comment on why this might suck, that 
would be useful.  Really, I think this is pretty neat.

Owen