Work with IBM Web Content Integrator

The Web Content Integrator is a solution for integrating externally managed Web content with WebSphere Portal. Through the use of standard content syndication feed technologies based on RSS 2.0, the Web Content Integrator provides a loosely-coupled mechanism for transferring published content and metadata to the portal after they have been approved in the source system. Once the content and metadata have been transferred to the portal, it is possible to use the built-in content management features of WebSphere Portal to secure, personalize, and display the content to users.

To use the Web Content Integrator you have to:

1. create a feed on source system using the Web Content Integrator feed format specification.

2. configure WebSphere Portal to consume the feed.

Feed format specification

RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is an XML-based format that is widely used for syndicating content from sources such as Web sites and blogs to readers who have subscribed to the feeds. The input to the Web Content Integrator is a content feed which complies with the RSS 2.0 format. The core feed format is relatively simple, with only a limited number of elements that need to be specified for each item in the feed. However, the RSS 2.0 specification allows the base format to be extended using XML namespaces to support additional functionality. To enable a deeper level of control over how items are created in Web Content Manager, an RSS extension has been defined which contains elements that map to many of the attributes of the Web Content Manager object model.

Feed format overview

RSS 2.0 is a dialect of XML, and all RSS files must comply with the XML 1.0 specification as published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). RSS feed files typically have file extensions of either .rss or .xml. The Web Content Integrator does not impose any file naming conventions on the feed producer.

RSS Namespace Extension for Web content

Web Content Manager items contain a set of controls which are used to store information for various purposes. The elements in this namespace roughly map to the fields that are available on those controls. Depending on the type of the item, it may or may not contain certain controls so some of the elements in the namespace are only relevant to specific item types. All of the elements in this namespace are sub-elements of <item>, none are used at the <channel> level.

Handling embedded links

From time to time, the content being retrieved by the Web Content Integrator will contain embedded links to images, files and other content within the feed. You can use the link tag in feed to represent embedded links so that they are converted into links to other Web Content Manager items that are created when the feed is processed.

Example feeds

View some example feeds which illustrate how to represent the various item types within a feed.

RSS Namespace Extension for the Feed Service

The RSS namespace extension is used to exchange control information between the feed producer and consumer applications.

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