Data Feed Example

When specifying a date-time value in an attribute for an RSS feed, use this format:

YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:sstz[+|-offset]

Where:

YYYY is the year (4 digits).

MM is the month (2 digits).

DD is the day (2 digits).

T is a literal character used as a separator.

hh is the hour (2 digits in 24-hour time designation).

mm is the minute (2 digits).

ss is the second (2 digits).

tz is an RFC822 time zone,^Foot 1  or Z to indicate local time.

offset is the difference between the local time zone and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) in the format hh:mm.

All of these examples are correct:

2002-06-03T16:06:05.00GMT
2002-06-03T16:06:05.00PDT
2002-06-03T16:06:05.00GMT-07:00
2002-06-03T16:06:05.00JST
2002-06-03T16:06:05.00GMT+09:00
2002-06-03T16:06:05.00Z

As shown by these date-time examples, you can specify numeric offsets in the date-time string. Thus, Greenwich Mean Time can be specified as either GMT or GMT+00:00 and Eastern Standard Time can be specified as either EST or GMT-05:00.

Repositories that dispatch data feeds must explicitly specify the content type to avoid the filtering overhead required by Oracle SES to detect the content type. See the <contentLink> and <content> elements in the example.

The following example shows a data feed containing three documents.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<rss xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
  version="2.0" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> 
<channel> 
<title>Contacts</title> 
<link>http://my.company.com/rss</link> 
<description>The channel contains feed for contacts</description>
<lastBuildDate>2006-04-03T12:20:20.00Z</lastBuildDate> 
<channelDesc xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/orarss"> 
     <feedType>full</feedType> 
</channelDesc> 
<item> 
     <link>http://my.company.com/contacts?id=paul</link> 
     <itemDesc xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/orarss" operation="insert"> 
     <documentMetadata> 
       <author>Administrator</author> 
       <accessURL>http://foo.com</accessURL>
       <lastModifiedDate>2009-12-12T12:22:22.00Z</lastModifiedDate>
       <keywords>Content Contact</keywords> 
       <summary>This is the summary of the document.</summary> 
       <sourceHierarchy> 
           <path>company</path>
           <path>department</path>
           <path>group</path>
       </sourceHierarchy>
       <docAttr name="organization">Reports</docAttr>
       <docAttr name="country">Germany</docAttr>
     </documentMetadata>
     <documentAcl>
       <securityAttr name="EMPLOYEE_ID">0R9NH</securityAttr> 
     </documentAcl> 
     <documentInfo> 
       <status>STATUS_OK_FOR_INDEX</status>
     </documentInfo>
     <documentContent>
       <contentLink contentType="text/html">http://my.company.com/reports.html</contentLink> 
       <content contentType="text/plain">Paul Robinson, A240, Westland Drive</content> 
     </documentContent> 
   </itemDesc> 
</item> 
<item> 
   <link>http://my.company.com/contacts?id=tom</link> 
   <itemDesc xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/orarss" operation="delete"/> 
</item> 
<item> 
   <link>http://my.company.com/contacts?id=robert</link> 
   <itemDesc xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/orarss" operation="insert"> 
   <documentMetadata> 
     <author>Administrator</author> 
     <accessURL>http://foo.com</accessURL>
     <lastModifiedDate>2009-12-12T12:22:22.00Z</lastModifiedDate> 
     <keywords>Content Contact </keywords> 
     <summary>This is the summary of the document</summary> 
     <sourceHierarchy> 
       <path>company</path>
       <path>department</path>
       <path>group</path>
     </sourceHierarchy>
     <docAttr name="organization">Sales</docAttr>
     <docAttr name="country">China</docAttr>
     </documentMetadata>
     <documentAcl>
       <securityAttr name="EMPLOYEE_ID">I23489</securityAttr> 
     </documentAcl> 
     <documentInfo> 
       <status>STATUS_OK_FOR_INDEX</status>
     </documentInfo>
     <documentContent>
       <contentLink contentType="text/html">http://my.company.com/sales.html</contentLink > 
       <content contentType="text/plain">Robert Mogambo, C318, Lakeside Avenue</content> 
     </documentContent> 
   </itemDesc> 
</item> 
</channel> 
</rss> 

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Footnote Legend

Footnote 1: RFC822 supports UT and GMT for universal time, and these North American time zones: EST, EDT, CST, CDT, MST, MDT, PST, and PDT.