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In a few weeks we are going to re-launch our newspaper, and the new site is based on Drupal5. We are still running the install on one of our desktop machines running Ubuntu, so the performance is not close to what we except from the final product.

It would be great if some of you could take a look at the site, and tell me your first impression.

Hi folks, I found the countries_api module the other day as a replacement for the internal ubercart 'geocoding' functionality. I'm thinking after some more research that the location or address module would be a better use of time.

However, both of these modules are incomplete when it comes to full country code information. I'm thinking it'd be a good idea to abstract out the country information that currently exists in the .inc files. Discussion a few years back on some other mailing lists made an XML file similar to the following:

Hi,
I'm very new to drupal services and I've been trying to use the rest_server module and it seems to work pretty well for my purposes (just getting the data out rather than putting it in). I'm now getting to the point where I'd like to be able to add attributes to the xml elements in the response, but I'd like these to be extensible to other server modules if possible (so i'd like to do it in my service module rather than implement a new server.

As I have worked with different content management and middleware solutions, one problem I have encountered numerous times, and that I think needs a better solution in drupal, is import and export of data and provision of web services. I think it would be good for drupal to create an import/export framework that would allow drupal developers to make re-usable, sharable import and export modules by implementing PHP objects to a few commmon interfaces and then adding their new import/export type into a central, common import/export module.

This is especially relevant for modern corporate newspapers that need to integrate content from different legacy systems, produce that content, then send it off to a number of different web publishing systems, and then also face the prospect of their systems changing if they are bought or sold. The framework as outlined in the design below could also be a means of implementing REST services (SOAP or XML-RPC would probably require another layer on top of this, though you probably could do it in this framework).

Hey all,
How many of you know about GRDDL ('griddle')?

If you've seen the acronym around but haven't read the spec, then you are missing out.

In short, it's a W3C recommended way to post links to XSL stylesheets in HTML and XML documents.

Those stylesheets are specifically designed to produce RDF/XML from a target document.

So what, you might say.

Well: these GRDDL transformations can be done for an individual document; or an entire xml namespace / xmdp (microformat) profile.

Greetings! I am a former newspaper lackey who is currently tasked with fleshing out the integration of DTP apps in our company (I work for a non-profit telco co-op) with our online presence both externally through our company website and internally on our intranet. Both of these environments are powered by Drupal exclusively.

Tip: Read News Industry Text Format (NITF) files with PHP
Parse and extract news content for use in your applications

The News Industry Text Format is an XML-based format used by the news industry to encode and share the content of news articles. PEAR's XML_NITF package provides an extensible API to read and parse NITF-formatted files, making it easy to extract bibliographical information and article content for use in any PHP application.

I run a news website. We're considering subscribing to some XML (not rss) news feeds. I'm trying to figure out how to import the news feeds into Drupal. Is there a module that can help with this? The feeds will be uploaded to a ftp location and I need to import them from there. Appreciate any guidance. Thanks.

After thinking a while about Chris's post here, I'm wondering if there might be a need for a simple, one stop solution for distributed content and distributed authentication between music sites.

Here's what I mean:

Just wondering if I would be able to export a result set of a view as XML using this API. Is this possible?

The other option would be to create and XML output based on a DB query as done in http://www.travistidwell.com/drupal_flash_interface.

Which way should I go? Are there other options beyond the above?

Thanks!!