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Tim Hicks wrote:
> Derek,
> 
> I'm cc'ing quills-dev as I assume it was unintentional to leave it out 
> in your reply...
> 
> Derek Richardson wrote:
> 
>>>  For 1.7/QuillsEnabled, I want to switch to plone.[app.]syndication
>>>  instead of base/fatsyndication.  Derek Richardson (cc'd) has already
>>>  fixed up a quills.syndication package to make this work, although I have
>>>  yet to get around to trying it properly.
>>>
>>>  That switch might make the mechanism we use to decide what feed links to
>>>  render, and how (e.g. in portlets and in html head element) somewhat
>>>  different across 1.6 and 1.7.  Perhaps Derek has some thoughts on this
>>>  sort of thing?
>> An autodiscovery hook (a viewlet) will be in Plone 3.1. Currently, the
>> autodiscovery link for RSS (old-style) is the only thing hardcoded in
>> the main template. With 3.1, it will be possible to choose a feed in
>> Vice to be autodiscovered and it should be possible to add this
>> functionality to fatsyndication.
> 
> To clarify, will it be possible to have more than one feed 
> autodiscoverable?  That makes sense to me.
> 
> Thinking about Quills, it would probably be good to have quite a 
> flexible/pluggable api for getting autodiscoverable feeds.  For example, 
> when viewing a particular topic, say:
> 
>    myblog/topics/ATopicName
> 
> I probably want to have the topic feed autodiscoverable.  As in:
> 
>    myblog/topics/ATopicName/@@atom.xml
> 
> (and maybe RSS, as well).  However, it probably also makes sense to have 
> the root feed autodiscoverable.  i.e.:
> 
>    myblog/atom.xml
> 
> Do you have any ideas on what an implementation might look like for this?
> 

Derek is referring to this PLIP:
http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/213

As I understand this it would be up to you to provide
the appropriate viewlet and register it in addition to
or as a substitute of the default one.

In you own viewlet you can do whatever you want, of course.

Raphael



> 
> Tim