[mythtv-users] Yahoo is offering free RSS news feeds

John Williams williamsbyron at gmail.com
Sat Mar 19 10:32:09 UTC 2005


If the RSS feed is XML (and my understanding is it is) then you can
apply an XSL stylesheet to it. That being the case basically you get
to specify the format of the display. XSL takes XML And applies a
style in most cases HTML display tot he XML. ou caould also do an OSD
option that turned on the news tocker or somethin gif you'd like. That
could just stream the headlines across the bottom of the screen while
you were watching TV much like is at the bottom of the news channels
except you could choose the feeds to be included and it could scroll
at the bottom of any show you were watching. In this case if the
Headline scrolling was of interest you could either choose a button to
expand it or maybe even mark the article for viewing later. SOmething
like that.

Back to the original question. Go to the www.w3c.com website and have
a look at their tutorial for XSL it will give you an idea of what I'm
talking about formatting the raw XML.

John Williams


On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:20:27 +1100, Phill Edwards
<philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have a look at http://news.yahoo.com/rss. This would be great to use
> in Mythnews wouldn't it? The problem with the mythnews at the moment
> is that it uses mythbrowser to display the fully marked up html news
> pages which don't look great on a TV. How can I configure Mythnews to
> use this raw feed so that it looks good on a TV?
> 
> Regards,
> Phill
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