NAME

XAlbum2Rss.pl v1.00 - XML Photo Album Script RSS Feed Generator

DESCRIPTION

This simple script can be used to generate RSS feed out of the album file, which you created for XPhotoAlbum.pl. The script can be used for off-Line RSS generation - add it to your schedule tasks or crontab.

Once you created RSS feed, your friends may add your album to their RSS Reader (http://www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/), http://www.LiveJournal.com friend lent, or http://my.yahoo.com personalized portal. Each time you ad a photo, they will instantly see it in their news feed.

USAGE

XAlbum2Rss.pl album.xml pictures-path 


Will print RSS feed on the output. You can redirect this into album.rdf file, and use it for RSS feed.

XML Index File Format

Please see the examples below to understand the format of the files.

CAVEATS

You need to add few new attributes to you album XML file, which will be used for RSS meta-data:

  1. LINK - URL of the full album

  2. AUTHOR - Your name

  3. COPYRIGHT - Copyright text

For example:

... LINK=``http://www.neystadt.org/john/album/'' AUTHOR=``John Neystadt'' COPYRIGHT=``John Neystadt'' ...

TIPS AND TRICKS

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EXAMPLES

Please see http://www.neystadt.org/ for three instances of the albums using this technology. Particulary examples of the XML index files are located at:

    http://www.neystadt.org/john/album/index.rdf
    http://www.neystadt.org/john/family-album/index.rdf

PREREQUISITES

This script requires the XML::DOM, XML::RSS and Image::ExifTool modules available from CPAN (http://www.cpan.org)

All UNIXes, Windows NT

Web

This simple script can be used to generate RSS feed out of the album file, which you created for XPhotoAlbum.pl. The script can be used for off-Line RSS generation - add it to your schedule tasks or crontab.

See http://www.neystadt.org/XPhotoAlbum/ for additional details.