news(1) [opensolaris man page]

news(1) 							   User Commands							   news(1)

NAME

       news - print news items

SYNOPSIS

       news [-a] [-n] [-s] [items]

DESCRIPTION

       news is used to keep the user informed of current events. By convention, these events are described by files in the directory /var/news.

       When  invoked  without  arguments,  news prints the contents of all current files in /var/news, most recent first, with each preceded by an
       appropriate header. news stores the ``currency'' time as the modification date of a file named .news_time in the user's home directory (the
       identity of this directory is determined by the environment variable $HOME ); only files more recent than this currency time are considered
       ``current.''

OPTIONS

       -a      Print all items, regardless of currency. In this case, the stored time is not changed.

       -n      Report the names of the current items without printing their contents, and without changing the stored time.

       -s      report how many current items exist, without printing their names or contents, and without changing the stored time. It	is  useful
	      to include such an invocation of news in one's .profile file, or in the system's /etc/profile.

       All other arguments are assumed to be specific news items that are to be printed.

       If  a  delete is typed during the printing of a news item, printing stops and the next item is started. Another delete within one second of
       the first causes the program to terminate.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for a description of the LC_CTYPE environment variable that affects the execution of news.

FILES

       /etc/profile

       /var/news/*

       $HOME/.news_time

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------------------------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE		      ATTRIBUTE VALUE		   |
       |Availability		      SUNWesu			   |
       |CSI			      Enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------------------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       profile(4), attributes(5), environ(5)

SunOS 5.11							    20 Dec 1996 							   news(1)

Template::Plugin::XML::RSS(3pm) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   Template::Plugin::XML::RSS(3pm)

NAME

       Template::Plugin::XML::RSS - Plugin interface to XML::RSS

SYNOPSIS

	   [% USE news = XML.RSS('news.rdf') %]

	   [% FOREACH item IN news.items %]
	      [% item.title %]
	      [% item.link  %]
	   [% END %]

DESCRIPTION

       This Template Toolkit plugin provides a simple interface to the XML::RSS module.

	   [% USE news = XML.RSS('mysite.rdf') %]

       It creates an XML::RSS object, which is then used to parse the RSS file specified as a parameter in the USE directive.  A reference to the
       XML::RSS object is then returned.

       An RSS (Rich Site Summary) file is typically used to store short news 'headlines' describing different links within a site.  This example
       is extracted from http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf.

	   <?xml version="1.0"?>
	   <rdf:RDF
	     xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
	     xmlns="http://my.netscape.com/rdf/simple/0.9/">

	     <channel>
	       <title>Slashdot:News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.</title>
	       <link>http://slashdot.org</link>
	       <description>News for Nerds.  Stuff that Matters</description>
	     </channel>

	     <image>
	       <title>Slashdot</title>
	       <url>http://slashdot.org/images/slashdotlg.gif</url>
	       <link>http://slashdot.org</link>
	     </image>

	     <item>
	       <title>DVD CCA Battle Continues Next Week</title>
	       <link>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/12/2051208</link>
	     </item>

	     <item>
	       <title>Matrox to fund DRI Development</title>
	       <link>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/13/0718219</link>
	     </item>

	     <item>
	       <title>Mike Shaver Leaving Netscape</title>
	       <link>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/13/0711258</link>
	     </item>

	   </rdf:RDF>

       The attributes of the channel and image elements can be retrieved directly from the plugin object using the familiar dotted compound nota-
       tion:

	   [% news.channel.title  %]
	   [% news.channel.link   %]
	   [% news.channel.etc... %]

	   [% news.image.title	  %]
	   [% news.image.url	  %]
	   [% news.image.link	  %]
	   [% news.image.etc...   %]

       The list of news items can be retrieved using the 'items' method:

	   [% FOREACH item IN news.items %]
	      [% item.title %]
	      [% item.link  %]
	   [% END %]

AUTHORS

       This plugin was written by Andy Wardley inspired by an article in Web Techniques by Randal Schwartz.

       The XML::RSS module, which implements all of the functionality that this plugin delegates to, was written by Jonathan Eisenzopf.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 1996-2006 Andy Wardley.  All Rights Reserved.

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       Template::Plugin, XML::RSS, XML::Parser

perl v5.8.8							    2008-03-01					   Template::Plugin::XML::RSS(3pm)