Filter RSS feed articles

[dvonjr]

Ok, this may become confusing because I don't really understand what I'm
doing, but here goes.

I what to add some news from a related site that uses RSS to push news. The
feed actually has 16 records/articles, (two months worth). The space I can
put this in on my site can accomidate about 5 or 6 records/articles. I've
got the feed set up on a test page and see all 16 records. When I use the
Data View Preview to limit the number of records to 5, the test page shows
only 5 records, however when I insert the test page (as an include) into the
area of my site where it will disply the news it defaults to all 16 records.

The news feed produces about 5 articles a month, so is there a way to filter
out articles older than the current month?

Some one else told me that I might be able to use XPATH to do this but I don't know anything about this so some help would be appreciated.

[jkmyoung]

You could always copy just the nodes from the first 5 articles, using XSLT and xpath
If you want date filtering, you'd need a node in the rss feed that specifies when each article has been published.

If you could post part of the feed, or the link to it, it'd be easier to create a custom XSLT for you.

[dvonjr]

You could always copy just the nodes from the first 5 articles, using XSLT and xpath
If you want date filtering, you'd need a node in the rss feed that specifies when each article has been published.

If you could post part of the feed, or the link to it, it'd be easier to create a custom XSLT for you.

Thanks for your reply and for your help. The link is http://community.kiwanisone.org/blogs/k ... s/rss.aspx
So if using the current date, all articles older than say 35 day's would not be posted. Hopefully that way the displayed feed would not grow larger than 5 or 6 articles.

I found a free tool online to do this at RSS Feed Reader however, free is not really free when you have to deal with Adware. Plus, if their server goes offline - no feed.

[jkmyoung]

You could actually use their own XSLT at http://community.kiwanisone.org/utility ... ts/rss.xsl

Just make modifications to add filters. You can also remove their header text if you want. Assuming there is only one channel, the line to change is here:
<xsl:for-each select="rss/channel/item">

For the first 5, change it to:
<xsl:for-each select="rss/channel/item[position() < 6]">

If you want to actually filter on date, you'd use the pubdate element, eg:
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
To be honest, doing it this way is a lot harder since the date uses Strings instead of numbers for the month, further, you would have to pass in the current date as a parameter into the xslt, more complications.

[dvonjr]

Thanks I'll check this out.