[pmwiki-users] RSS: please explain

[Russ Fink]

>From: Hans <design at flutesong.net>
>
>I confess that I am puzzled about RSS.
>I read the relevant pages on pmwiki.org and have some idea that
>action=rss should provide a page with headlines and a short
>description (i.e. first line of pages), and including a link to the
>pages. But http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Main/RecentChanges?action=rss
>only gives me a page of code without any style formatting, like: ...

I think you need a browser that can handle RSS.  Download Firefox.  In 
Firefox, go to Bookmarks, Manage Bookmarks, then File, New Live Bookmark, 
and enter the rss link.  This bookmark will show as a dropdown icon in your 
bookmark menu, and when you click on it, you see the page titles of the 
items being fed from the site.

[One prob w/FF: you have to add the RSS feed via "Manage Bookmarks" dialog 
explicitly; I have not been able to drag a live link and have it appear as 
live.  If I drag the link or just click on the "New Bookmark" (NOT new LIVE 
bookmark), it gives me the xml stuff, not a dropdown menu.  I'm hoping 
they'll autosense the link in future releases to "do the right thing" with 
rss links.]

This is the only way I've found to do it, but I'd like to know a better way; 
specifically,  I would like to know how to display the expanded content of 
RSS in a web/wiki page, in either (a) a list of page titles that I can click 
on, (b) fully expanded article text.  Probably off-topic.  You see, I have a 
bunch of newsfeeds that I read often...

Any help or ideas, thanks in advance.
Russ