Opened 15 years ago

Closed 5 months ago

#12978 closed New feature (fixed)

Support in syndication framework for CSS stylesheet links

Reported by: intrepidweb Owned by: Baptiste Mispelon
Component: contrib.syndication Version: 1.1
Severity: Normal Keywords: syndication css stylesheets
Cc: Triage Stage: Ready for checkin
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

It would be very helpful to be able to add CSS stylesheets to feeds produced by the syndication framework. As far as I know, this is not possible now without overriding the write method of the feed class.

Attachments (4)

12968.diff (2.4 KB ) - added by Yuval Adam 14 years ago.
12978.diff (5.3 KB ) - added by Yuval Adam 14 years ago.
Updated proposed patch, with tests and docs
12978.2.diff (5.3 KB ) - added by Tim Graham 11 years ago.
12978.3.diff (5.4 KB ) - added by Tim Graham 10 years ago.

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Change History (28)

comment:1 by Russell Keith-Magee, 15 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

I'm not aware of any CSS technique that works reliably for RSS or Atom feeds. This is largely because RSS is intended to be machine readable, not human readable.

If I'm mistaken, I'm open to suggestions on what technique we should be supporting.

comment:2 by intrepidweb, 15 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: closedreopened

RSS feeds contain CSS and/or XSL stylesheets all the time. Here's a link on how to add an RSS stylesheet:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/07/01/rss.html

I tried to include a list of major websites that use stylesheets in their RSS feeds, but the spam filter blocked it. However, if you check the feeds of CNN, CBS News, Reuters, Newsweek, Time and many more, you'll see XSL and/or CSS stylesheets linked in the source.

comment:3 by Jacob, 15 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedSomeday/Maybe

comment:4 by Yuval Adam, 14 years ago

milestone: 1.3
Owner: changed from nobody to Yuval Adam
Status: reopenednew

by Yuval Adam, 14 years ago

Attachment: 12968.diff added

comment:5 by Yuval Adam, 14 years ago

Has patch: set
Needs documentation: set

Turns out easier than expected. saxutils supports adding XML processing instructions.

Added support for stylesheets, per the W3 spec, in the feedgenerator and in contrib.syndication.

comment:6 by Alex Gaynor, 14 years ago

Needs tests: set

by Yuval Adam, 14 years ago

Attachment: 12978.diff added

Updated proposed patch, with tests and docs

comment:7 by Yuval Adam, 14 years ago

Needs documentation: unset
Needs tests: unset
Triage Stage: Someday/MaybeUnreviewed

comment:8 by Yuval Adam, 14 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedSomeday/Maybe

comment:9 by Luke Plant, 14 years ago

Type: New feature

comment:10 by Luke Plant, 14 years ago

Severity: Normal

comment:14 by Aymeric Augustin, 12 years ago

Triage Stage: Someday/MaybeAccepted

Accepting based on comment 2.

by Tim Graham, 11 years ago

Attachment: 12978.2.diff added

comment:16 by Tim Graham, 11 years ago

Updated the patch to apply cleanly, but noticed with the current implementation the stylesheets are only added to RSS feeds and not ATOM feeds. Does ATOM not support stylesheets?

comment:17 by Collin Anderson, 10 years ago

Is this still useful now that browsers have dropped the RSS button?

comment:18 by Tim Graham, 10 years ago

Patch needs improvement: set

I think it's still relevant. feedburner styles their feeds for example. I updated the patch to apply cleanly again, but we do need to add support for stylesheets in the ATOM feedgenerator (I started this, but didn't make the test updates). Also, I think we should avoid hardcoding text/css since stylesheets could also be xsl. Maybe extracting the stylesheet extension is enough or maybe the stylehseets attribute should be tuples of ('stylesheet', 'type'). Finally, the patch is also missing release notes.

by Tim Graham, 10 years ago

Attachment: 12978.3.diff added

comment:19 by Sarah Boyce, 7 months ago

#35420 possible duplicate, with patch: https://github.com/django/django/pull/18120

comment:20 by Baptiste Mispelon, 7 months ago

Owner: changed from Yuval Adam to Baptiste Mispelon
Patch needs improvement: unset
Status: newassigned

comment:21 by Sarah Boyce, 7 months ago

Patch needs improvement: set

Patch is missing support for CSS stylesheets 👍

comment:22 by Baptiste Mispelon, 7 months ago

Easy pickings: unset
Patch needs improvement: unset
UI/UX: unset

I've added support for CSS stylesheets as well and updated the PR.

comment:23 by Sarah Boyce, 6 months ago

Patch needs improvement: set

Tested using the test project provided by Baptiste and is working well: https://github.com/bmispelon/django-ticket-35420
Have minor comments on the PR but the main change is requesting support can adding multiple stylesheets (then some doc updates around that).
I think this is close 👍

comment:24 by Baptiste Mispelon, 6 months ago

Patch needs improvement: unset

I've pushed an update with support for both single and multiple stylesheets. I think this is shaping up nicely, I'm enjoying the review process!

comment:25 by Sarah Boyce, 5 months ago

Patch needs improvement: set

comment:26 by Baptiste Mispelon, 5 months ago

Patch needs improvement: unset

Rebased the PR and targeted 5.2 instead.

comment:27 by Sarah Boyce, 5 months ago

Triage Stage: AcceptedReady for checkin

comment:28 by Sarah Boyce <42296566+sarahboyce@…>, 5 months ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

In 62300b8:

Fixed #12978 -- Added support for RSS feed stylesheets.

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