Joe,

Thanks for your assistance.  I'd like to keep this thread open while I do a 
little research on XSLT stylesheets.  Then  I'll be back with better 
questions and code for examination. 

I take it that you are suggesting that the stylesheet can provide my .xml 
RSS feed document with the capability to link to another sheet like I need 
and provide functioning capabilty within that RSS document as well. 

I've been all over the net for several days now finding how I can 
dynamically create whole feeds via PHP, scripts, databases, etc.  I don't 
want to create whole feeds each week just amend parts of existing feeds, 
while leaving parts of the individual feeds' compositions alone.  I feel I'm 
swimming up stream, which leads me to believe I probably have a conceptual 
misunderstanding in my train of thought. 

I'll go get a bit more educated so I can ask more pointed questions and not 
waste your time.

Thanks and I'll be back soon.

"Joe Fawcett" wrote:

> You can possibly use the document function to bring in external document to 
> an XSLT stylesheet and then extract data from each of them.
> Without a small concrete example of what exactly you need it's hard to give 
> more specific advice.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
> http://joe.fawcett.name
> "Kass" <Kass@d...> wrote in message 
> news:8908EA26-D244-40B3-AFED-03EF5145DDC7@m......
> > Martin,
> >
> > Thank you for your reply.
> > Here is what I'm trying to do... hoping I can stay within the .xml format.
> > That is why I'm in your forum, rather than PHP.  I'm trying to figure out 
> > if
> > it is possible to dynamically link parts of .xml nodes to a separate file 
> > in
> > the same directory, without disturbing the rest of the nodes in the .xml
> > format.
> >
> > We have feeds offered directly off the site, but also via subscription 
> > feed
> > and subscription email feed via Feedburner (now with Google).  We have
> > hundreds of subscribers  for the different venues, so I don't want to 
> > disturb
> > the .xml extension that Feedburner is set to if possible.
> >
> > Every week I use a Find / Replace to replace the <pubDate>, 
> > <lastBuildDate>,
> > the starting date (would be "April 3, 2009" below) and the week of date
> > (would be "Week of April 3rd - April 9th" below).
> >
> > Then I also have some common feed <description> information that I have to
> > open each feed and do a cut and paste and save.
> >
> > Not only is this redundant and time consuming, but more importantly, 
> > leaves
> > me open for mistakes.  So I'd like to do the common information mentioned
> > above more dynamically.
> > I've tried to figure out how to use dynamic linking in the parts of the 
> > .xml
> > feed files that would change weekly.... linking to a master file where I'd
> > make the weekly changes necessary, but I've not had much success.
> >
> > Here are some samples, and again I thank you for your time and knowledge.
> >
> > The unique information for each feed I've replaced with UNIQUE FEED INFO.
> >
> > The common information I've replaced with COMMON FEED and put 
> > between -------
> >
> > The actual feed that would be displayed would follow this format... I've
> > reblocked and shortened the number of items for clarity.
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > <rss version="2.0">
> >
> > <channel>
> > <title>Title Here</title>
> > <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:00:00 CST</pubDate>
> > <lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:00:00 CST</lastBuildDate>
> > <description>Starting April 3, 2009 …UNIQUE FEED INFO...</description>
> > <language>en-us</language>
> > <link>https://domain.com/UNIQUE FEED INFO</link>
> > <copyright>Copyright 2008, Company Name</copyright>
> >
> >
> > <item>
> > <title>Showing the Week of April 3rd - April 9th at....UNIQUE FEED
> > INFO</title>
> > <link>https://domain.com</link>
> > <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:00:00 CST</pubDate>
> > <description>Features Starting April 3, 2009 for ..UNIQUE FEED
> > INFO</description>
> > </item>
> >
> > ---------------There would be several common items--------------
> > <item>
> > <title>COMMON FEED TITLE</title>
> > <link>http://www.movietavern.com</link>
> > <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:00:00 CST</pubDate>
> > <description>COMMON FEED DESCRIPTION</description>
> > </item>
> >
> > ---------------There would be several common items--------------
> > <item>
> > <title>Showing the Week of April 3rd - April 9th</title>
> > <link>http://www.domain.com/UNIQUE FEED INFO</link>
> > <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:00:00 CST</pubDate>
> > <description>UNIQUE FEED INFO for the Week of April 3, 2009</description>
> > </item>
> >
> > </channel>
> > </rss>
> >
> > "Martin Honnen" wrote:
> >
> >> Kass wrote:
> >>
> >> > I have 25+ RSS feeds that have some unique information and some shared
> >> > information.  I'd like to have a "master.xml" (.rss or some sort of 
> >> > master)
> >> > that is linked to a "feed.xml" whereby I can adjust the shared 
> >> > information in
> >> > the "master.xml" file and it will dynamically change the appropriate 
> >> > nodes in
> >> > the "feed.xml" file.
> >> >
> >> > I tried using php inside the feed.xml file to pull data from the 
> >> > master.php
> >> > file  ... no good.  I tried using xpath in the feed.xml file to pull 
> >> > data
> >> > from the master.xml file... still no luck.  Perhaps I don't have the 
> >> > correct
> >> > syntax.  I'm not getting errors, just no data feed.
> >>
> >> I think you need to show samples of those feeds to allow us to
> >> understand in what way data is shared and what data exactly you want to
> >> update.
> >> And if you are looking for a PHP solution then there are better places
> >> than microsoft.public.xml to ask for help.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -- 
> >>
> >> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> >> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
> >>
> 
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