Hi everybody,
With regard to RSS feeds; I noticed that there's a stylesheet to
convert the output of a Solr search into RSS format in the
example\solr\conf\xlst directory. My questions are:
1) Where can I find docs on how to get Solr to feed RSS directly?
2) Correct me if I'm wrong here: Normal searches return results based on
what's indexed at the time. If documents are only added to an index, then
subsequent searches (ordered by date new-to-oldest) will have the newer docs
appear on top, and thus an RSS feed will have "new entries" when the search
is re-performed.
However, how do you handle RSS feeds for indexes where data can be both
added and removed? For example, if I want to have an RSS feed of users on my
site, I want new users to show up as new items in the RSS feed as they come
along. However, users don't stick around forever, they can also disappear
from the database. Similarly, users can change their information and thus
they may not match a particular query anymore (and would thus disappear from
the RSS feed, right?).
Wouldn't this cause havoc for RSS readers if results changed often?
Aren't they used to getting only new items and the old items hanging around?
Lists of users are not like blogs, and yet (for my application) some people
may want to have a feed of new users of a particular type (where users are
free to change their type at any time).
Any advice about how to approach this would be appreciated.
Sincerely,
Daryl.
