The RSS News Viewer plugin from Zenserve allows you to view RSS feeds from inside the structured version of FrameMaker 7. You can store up to five RSS channels, and the viewer window provides page reload, hyperlink, and navigational functionality.You can view a screenshot, and download the plugin from www.zenserve.com
RDF Site Summary (RSS) is a well-established web protocol that allows web developers to publish content on their web site in a manageable format. RSS repackages the content as a list of XML data items, such as the date, summary, or hyperlink to a news story. For more information about RSS, click here.
Zenserve has developed a utility that leverages FrameMaker’s structured documentation environment in order to parse formatted RSS XML information and present it to the user in an accessible form. The XML is displayed in a navigable FrameMaker window that can be refreshed, or used to jump to a linked story (if one is present). Although the utility is very useful for reading off-site news feeds, it could also be used to serve internal information to FrameMaker users within an organization.
The cost of the plugin is £20.00 UKP for a single user license, and £200.00 UKP for a site license. This plugin is compatible with the structured version of FrameMaker 7 on Windows 2000 and XP.
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