modules/views_datasource/README.txt

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Views Datasource README
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Current Version
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6.x-0.1-dev

Release Notes
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CVS module created and intial code uploaded to repository. This is a 
proof-of-concept release with a working views_json plugin for Drupal 6. In the
Views interface simply select the view style as JSON data document (Exhibit 
format only) and the row style as Unformatted (separator must be |). Because the
template changes the page Content-type to text/javascript and immediately exits 
Drupal, the live preview will throw an error. This can be ignored; just save 
your view as a page and view it normally at the URL to get the JSON output.

About
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Views Datasource is a set of plugins for Views for rendering node content in a 
set of shareable, reusable data formats based on XML, JSON, and XHTML. These 
formats allow content in a Drupal site to be easily used as data sources for 
Semantic Web clients and web mash-ups. Views Datasource plugins output content 
from node lists created in Drupal Views as:
  1)XML data documents using schemas like OPML and Atom;
  2)RDF/XML and RDF/N3 data documents using a vocabulary like FOAF;
  3)JSON data documents in a format like MIT Simile/Exhibit JSON;
  4)XHTML data documents using a microformat like hCard
  
The project consists of 4 Views style plugins (and related row plugins):
  1)views_xml - Output as raw XML, OPML, and Atom;
  2)views_json - Output as Simile/Exhibit JSON, canonical JSON, JSONP;
  3)views_rdf - Output as FOAF, SIOC and DOAP;
  4)views_xhtml - Output as hCard, hCalendar, and Geo. 
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6	Current Version
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8	6.x-0.1-dev
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10	Release Notes
11	-------------
12	CVS module created and intial code uploaded to repository. This is a
13	proof-of-concept release with a working views_json plugin for Drupal 6. In the
14	Views interface simply select the view style as JSON data document (Exhibit
15	format only) and the row style as Unformatted (separator must be \|). Because the
16	template changes the page Content-type to text/javascript and immediately exits
17	Drupal, the live preview will throw an error. This can be ignored; just save
18	your view as a page and view it normally at the URL to get the JSON output.
19
20	About
21	-----
22	Views Datasource is a set of plugins for Views for rendering node content in a
23	set of shareable, reusable data formats based on XML, JSON, and XHTML. These
24	formats allow content in a Drupal site to be easily used as data sources for
25	Semantic Web clients and web mash-ups. Views Datasource plugins output content
26	from node lists created in Drupal Views as:
27	1)XML data documents using schemas like OPML and Atom;
28	2)RDF/XML and RDF/N3 data documents using a vocabulary like FOAF;
29	3)JSON data documents in a format like MIT Simile/Exhibit JSON;
30	4)XHTML data documents using a microformat like hCard
31
32	The project consists of 4 Views style plugins (and related row plugins):
33	1)views_xml - Output as raw XML, OPML, and Atom;
34	2)views_json - Output as Simile/Exhibit JSON, canonical JSON, JSONP;
35	3)views_rdf - Output as FOAF, SIOC and DOAP;
36	4)views_xhtml - Output as hCard, hCalendar, and Geo.