RSS-SS XSLT stylesheets

Because the Service Status RSS feed (RSS-SS) is XML it can be transformed using XSLT into a variety of output formats. The most obvious is HTML, for display on a status web page, but WML for use on WAP mobile (cell) phones is just as simple.

Stylesheets available from ceridwen.com include:

• RSS-SS to HTML table

  Produces an HTML page displaying a table of service statuses.

• RSS-SS to HTML list

  Produces an HTML page displaying a list of service statuses.

• RSS-SS to uPortal HTML fragment

  JA-SIG uPortal is an opensource portal framework. This stylesheet can be simply added into the framework and produces output using the uPortal styles and structures.

• RSS-SS to WML

  This output is suitable for WAP phones. It comprises three cards: the first summarises the count of services up and down, and the following cards list the details of "up" servers and "down" servers.

• RSS-SS (+ dependencies map) to RSS-SS

  Some services depend on others. Often the overall service seen by a user depends on several services as seen by a system administrator. For example a dynamic website may depend on a web server and a database server, and the dynamic website is available if and only if both servers are available. Given a suitable dependencies map, in XML format, this stylesheet will combine items from an RSS-SS feed: output is also in RSS-SS format.