Question

Is it possible to configure TWiki such that the WebRss feeds show an HTML-formatted diff?

The current summary is hard to read, as it lacks all formatting and doesn't show the context of what changed.

Environment

-- TWikiGuest - 08 May 2006

Answer

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I tried to do this during the development cycle of TWiki-4, but there are quite alot of things that seemed to go wrong with the TWiki to HTML to encoding for rss xml - so, unfortuanalty, its not trivial, but its on the list of things we'd like to have,

-- SvenDowideit - 08 May 2006

I see what you mean. I just tried hacking this in myself, and even if I escape the HTML, it still barfs. I even tried this with Atom using type="xhtml", and that also barfed due to numerous   entities. Of course, I could simply remove all these entities and use the proper XML-compatible entity for them, but there are way too many to count.

-- TWikiGuest - 18 May 2006

The topic summary is just plain text, isn't it? Can't this parser be used for the generated rdiff output?

-- ArthurClemens - 18 May 2006

Which parser would that be?

I did take a look at the dollar variables available in the search macro, and I didn't see anything which would make it possible to get a diff for a page.

-- TWikiGuest - 22 May 2006

You could consider using the CDATA tag in your feeds for the diff if the only problem left is HTML entities.

- I'd like to see this functionality myself, any help on this is very welcome

-- SteffenPoulsen - 16 Jun 2006