Re: generate a rss.xml from a bunch of HTML files
The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2021-05-09 at 15:36, Dan Ritter wrote:
>
> > That is what a static site generator is.
> >
> > It's a command-line tool that takes a directory full of content
> > files, a set of templates, a CSS file or 3, and spits out a web site
> > ready to be served by your favorite web server, including the thing
> > you asked for: an RSS or ATOM feed.
>
> One possible difference is that the ones I've looked at (admittedly
> nowhere near all of them) seem to expect the input to be in some other
> format, to be translated into HTML etc., rather than letting you write
> the HTML etc. directly and doing [whatever other things] with the
> result. For example, the package description for pelican (which you
> suggested earlier) says that it requires its input to be in Markdown or
> rST.
"Pelican can also process HTML files ending in .html and .htm."
-- https://docs.getpelican.com/en/latest/content.html
> Then again, I'm not sure a static site of that type would really be
> suitable for having an RSS-type feed of, since by definition it would be
> static and not receiving updates such as might go into such a feed.
The static refers to this: the pile of data is processed when
you assemble it, not when a viewer asks for it.
When you make a change -- editing a page, adding a page,
deleting one, changing some feature -- you commit the change and
the generator does its work again. This tyically takes between
0.1 and 10 seconds. Then everything is static again.
-dsr-
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