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  • Gordon Saxby 1347 posts 1608 karma points
    Feb 20, 2009 @ 14:56
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    help and suggestions on how to treat weather RSS

    A customer wants local weather displayed on their web site. I found the RSS feed on the BBC web site and have got it displaying in it's raw format (see http://twitpic.com/1l3bv), but it could do with looking a whole lot nicer!

    The RSS data is below. If you compare that against the page it came from - http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=2073 - you'll see that the information supplied in the RSS is rather short of what's shown on the web site! (I'm using the "3 day forecast feed")

    Does anyone have any advice / tricks / etc on how to format the info better? Alternatively, are there better weather RSS feeds available?


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    xmlns:blogChannel="http://backend.userland.com/blogChannelModule"
    xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"
    xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"




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  • rorythecheese 110 posts 56 karma points
    Feb 20, 2009 @ 15:57
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    We use - http://xoap.weather.com/ and the xml looks like this for london - http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/UKXX0085?cc=*&dayf=5 . THere's a instrucitons and icons if you sign up.
    Ii think thats here - http://www.weather.com/services/oap.html

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  • bob baty-barr 1180 posts 1294 karma points MVP
    Feb 20, 2009 @ 16:00
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    @gordon... here is how i work with the xml feed from yahoo weather....

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    ]>
    <>
    version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
    xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library"
    xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
    xmlns:str="http://exslt.org/strings"
    extension-element-prefixes="str"
    xmlns:yweather="http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/ns/rss/1.0"
    xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns"
    exclude-result-prefixes="msxml rdf umbraco.library yweather">



























     







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    hope that helps for ideas on accessing the data, etc.

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  • Gordon Saxby 1347 posts 1608 karma points
    Feb 20, 2009 @ 17:18
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    Thanks Bob - that's great! Could I be cheeky and ask to see your CSS for "weatherContainer" and associated?

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