Re: Org publish syndication [dynamic web with org]

["Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

Hi Matt,

This is a very interesting project.  I am looking forward to seeing what
you come up with.  The hardest part to me seems to be triggering a
publish action when one of your subtrees needs to be added to the feed.

This is one of a couple of different ideas which have surfaced in the
mailing list recently which all could be described as the creation of
dynamic web-pages from org-mode formatted files.  Some of the other
ideas that come to mind are blogs (as you mentioned [BTW: I don't think
blorg.el is under active development]), the creation of a wiki in which
the markup syntax is org-mode, the use of org-mode for project-wide TODO
tracking and collaboration (presumably through a web interface to the
org-file usable by the Emacs illiterate), and the use of org-mode files
to track bug reports in an online bug tracker.

I would propose we address the general question of

  *dynamic web content with org*

all at once, maybe through a solicitation/collection of ideas,
requirements, and use-cases, and then through some process of
investigating which implementation options we might have to turn to.
Some questions that come to mind are...

1) Would we want Emacs to run a web-server so we can keep everything in
   elisp?
2) Would we want to use some outside language/platform to handle the
   actual web-programming?
3) How would we integrate org-mode with another language (externally
   visible org-mode API exposed by a running Emacs)??

Thanks -- Eric


aside:

I've been trying to familiarize myself with some of the common-lisp
web-frameworks in my spare time, and I'm hoping to implement a simple
org-mode formatted wiki, which uses git (instead of a database) to
handle versioning

Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:

> I have been trying to get a better handle on emacs lisp and thought I
> might cut my teeth on an add-on for org-publish that would syndicate
> xml and/or rss feeds for org-publish projects and/or individual
> files/directories.
>
> Because of its rich markup, org-mode has the potential to be a
> wonderful platform for creating syndicated content. I'm intrigued by
> the ideas behind blorg.el, but am not sure if that project is dead.
> (Any updates would be greatly appreciated!)
>
> For now, I simply want to code something that will create
> chronological feeds of headings (+ optional content) with the most
> recent inactive timestamps, either for the entire project or for
> individual pages. (I think this would be a nice way for people to get
> quick updates on current projects. E.g., if I flip an item to DONE, it
> would pop to the top of the feed.) One could optionally create fields
> of upcoming deadlines and scheduled items based on active, rather than
> inactive, timestamps.
>
> My own interest in this is to create announcement feeds for classes I
> teach. E.g., my students could subscribe to feeds that update them
> with news and relevant new content. Another idea: an option of
> generating blog-style html pages that aggregate timestamped content
> from several pages.
>
> My current plan is to control options through a
> org-publish-syndicate-alist that would offer the possibility of
> generating different feeds based on specified tags, TODO keywords,
> pages, directories, and/or category. (Not sure if I'll have use of
> these, but it would be nice, for instance, to be able to create a feed
> based on items in the subdirectory "western-civ" with the todo-keyword
> FEED, which would be setup to generate a timestamp.)
>
> I think this would also have the potential to aggregate tag content
> for an entire site: i.e., a possible option of creating individual
> feeds and index pages for all tagged content in a project, with x
> number of items per page/feed. 
>
> Any thoughts/feedback? 
>
> - Matt
>
> P.S. Let me warn you in advance that I'm doing this as a way of
> educating myself about emacs lisp, so please don't expect any quick
> progress.
>
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