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XML Web feed — free, high-quality content for your Web site Looking for free, easy-to-use online content? Family Features Editorial Syndicate provides weekly updated features, recipes, articles, tips and links as XML sources for incorporation into your Web site. Our XML feed delivers high quality, color editorial features showcasing products and services from America's favorite companies, associations and their agencies. These eye-catching themed features are used by print and online editors on the front page of their food and lifestyle sections to build readership and add value to their publications and web sites. This page provides a summary of XML feeds, schemas, XSLT examples and resources. Further details for our XML feed can be found at XML Feed Development Guide . ATTRIBUTION To use Family Features' XML Feed, we require the following attribution: A service of Family Features XML Feeds Dynamic Web pages return XML documents for weekly features and recipes. Weekly features and recipes contain unbounded sequences of features and recipes. See schemas below for more information on features and recipes data. In the weekly features feed each feature contains an id attribute that can be used to get reference to the feature detail, which is called from the feature feed. The following example feeds contain a default XSLT style sheet that will transform the feed if viewed under Internet Explorer 6. If you look at the source of the page you will see the XML data of the feed. Food Features Weekly Features Feed | Weekly Features Feed XSLT Example Weekly Recipes Feed | Weekly Recipes Feed XSLT Example Weekly Recipe Clusters Feed | Weekly Recipe Clusters Feed XSLT Example Non Food Articles Weekly Home & Garden Feed | Weekly Home & Garden Feed XSLT Example Weekly Lifestyle Feed | Weekly Lifestyle Feed XSLT Example Links Home & Garden Links Feed | Home & Garden Links Feed XSLT Example Lifestyle Links Feed | Lifestyle Links Feed XSLT Example XML Schemas These schemas are componentized. The recipe component builds upon the format and image components. The feature component builds upon recipe and sponsor components. Finally the weekly features are an unbounded sequence of features. Food Weekly Features - Contains information for Weekly Features Summary. Weekly Recipes - Contains information for Weekly Recipes Summary. Feature Information - Contains information for feature detail. Recipe Information - Component of Features. Content Information - Component of Recipes. -- Non Food Weekly Articles - Contains information for Weekly Articles Summary. Article Information - Contains information for article detail. Links Categories Links - Contains category name and related link subcategories. Sub Categories Links - Contains sub category name and related links. General Format - Pattern used for passing HTML formatting. Image - Pattern used for image information. Section Information - Component of Articles or Features. Link Information - Component of Article, Feature, or Sub Category Links. Sponsor Information - Component of Articles, Features, or Recipes. SubCategory Information - Component of Weekly Articles or Weekly Features. Course Information - Component of Weekly Features or Weekly Recipes. Week Information - Component of Weekly Articles, Weekly Features, or Weekly Recipes. XSLT These are basic examples of using XSLT to transform the feeds. The weekly feature gives an example of getting reference to feature data. Look for <xsl:variable name="id" select="@id"/> <a href="feature.ashx?featureId={$id}">. When saving these xml feeds off locally for caching purposes you could change these to static references. The Feature and Article transforms listed below call a HTML formatting template. If you don't want the transmitted HTML format you can override it by changing or replacing this template. Food Example Weekly Feature Transformation Example Weekly Recipes Transformation Example Weekly Recipe Clusters Transformation Example Feature Transformation Non Food Example Weekly Articles Transformation Example Article Transformation Links Example Category Links Transformation General Example HTML Format Transformation For help contact Media Communications at Support@familyfeatures.com or 888-824-3337. Resources Here are some books and URL's that can provide further information on XML & XSLT Books Tidwell, D. (2010). XSLT: Mastering XML transformations. O'Reilly. Sebastopol, CA. DuCharme, B. (1999). XML: The Annotated Specification. Prentice Hall PTR. Upper Saddle River, NJ. Burke, E. (2001). Java and XSLT: Embedded XML Processing. Into Java Applications O'Reilly. Sebastopol, CA. Laughlin, B. (2000). Java and XML. O'Reilly. Sebastopol, CA. St. Laurant, S. (2000). Building XML Applications. McGraw Hill. New York. St. Laurant, S. (2000). XML Elements of Style. McGraw-Hill. New York. URL's http://www.xml.com/ O'Reilly XML resource center http://www.w3c.org/ World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) http://www.topxml.com/xsl/tutorials/intro/default.asp XSLT & XPath Tutorial http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/ XML & XSLT User Forum...