I get following error when choosing the custom option.

An error has occurred while trying to perform the XSL transformation. This is because either (1) the DataSource did not return valid XML or (2) the XSL for transformation is invalid.

Correct the problem before continuing. If you continue to have trouble, contact your system administrator. This problem was detected by Pagelet Wizard.

Any help with this would be appreciated.

looks like you cannot reach the site. What happens when you access the URL with Internet Explorer?

Regards,
Frank

I tried the above example with the exact same RSS Feed URL(http://rssfeeds.headliner.nl/rssfeeds/az/feed.xml)

But when I get to step 5 I see that the XML remains blank and I get the error “Integration Gateway is not able to contact the external system”

Do you know what I could be missing here ?

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I also have this problem. Which tools version do you use? I found article E-PORTAL: When will PeopleSoft support RSS 2.0? (Doc ID 640852.1) on Metalink with the following info:

In version 8.9 of the Enterprise Portal, RSS 2.0 is supported via the Pagelet Wizard using the URL datatype with the proper transformation. However, the news pagelet/external news providers are still limited and only list 0.91 in the drop down source options. The preferred method is to use the Pagelet Wizard.

There are several custom XSL templates that are delivered with Pagelet Wizard in EP 8.9 – ATOM 0.3, RSS 0.91 – 0.93, RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0. For instance, select the URL data source and then a “Custom” display format. On Step 5 (Specify Display Options), the new delivered XSL templates are listed in the XSL Template dropdown.

Current PeopleBooks documentation doesn’t mention this change and only lists 0.91 version as available. This documentation issue is currently being addressed.

NOTES: BUG:1345427000 was opened to address this concern and it has been determined that the Pagelet Wizard will continue to support RSS 2.0, while the the news pagelet/external news will not be updated to include this standard.

In order to create an RSS 2.0 (or other style) pagelet, follow these steps:
1) Navigate to Pagelet Wizard and Add a new Pagelet
2) Give it a name and define it as data type “URL”
3) Provide the RSS news feed web address
4) use a custom XSL template
5) Select the template type (RSS 2.0 for example) from the drop down. Generate the XSL and preview the pagelet.
6) Publish pagelet.

Let me know if this helps.

Regards,
Frank

Chris Kennedy, MBA from Baltimore suggested the following:

“I was able to limit the number of items listed in the feed by adding an if condition to the XSL code”

< xsl:template match="/rss/channel/item" >
< xsl:if test="position() < 11" >
< li class="portlet-font" >
< a href="{link}" target="_blank" title="{description}" >
< xsl:if test="position() < 11" >
< xsl:value-of select="title" disable-output-escaping="yes"/ >
< /xsl:if >
< /a >
< span class="portlet-font-dim" >
< xsl:if test="position() < 11" >
(< xsl:value-of select="pubDate" disable-output-escaping="yes"/ >)
< /xsl:if >
< /span >
< div class="portlet-font" >
< xsl:if test="position() < 11" >
< xsl:value-of select="description" disable-output-escaping="yes"/ >
< /xsl:if >
< /div >
< /li >
< /xsl:if >
< /xsl:template >

Have you been able to use the pagelet wizard to post a rss 2.0 feed? I get an error that the Integration Gateway is not able to contact the external system. Works fine with your RSS 1.0 example.

If you would like to know how that works, please check the following forum to get more specifics:

http://www.heug.org/p/fo/st/topic=17&post=120910#p120910

Please try to create one account if you are not able to access that link. This is very useful site for all sorts of PeopleSoft related questions.

Thanks,
Kayal