Glancing at www.scripting.com's feed I see this: <description> <a href="http://www.microdoc-news.info/blogger/2003/06/30.html#a739">Microdoc...
I'm producing a tool that builds a complete RSS2.0 file of ALL posts. Currently, it doesn't add any posts that are not on the front page, that is, a post to a...
What is the best source for beginners that explains RSS simply and easy? Book, net site, or article appreciated. If the article contains a little how to, also...
I don't know about best, but you could try : Book : Content Syndication with RSS by Ben Hammersley has had good reviews (not read it myself yet, but Ben seems...
Hello, I am new to this group so I do apologize if my question is obvious. I have been following the RSS development over the last few years and I think it is...
You have reader the (rather ambiguous) spec correctly. Current reader programs do not generally support more than one channel per file. That, combined with...
Brett, the wording in the second spec is unfortunate, but not in disagreement with the wording in original spec. And since the second is derived from the...
Hi there, A quick question about the use of the enclosure tag. I'm looking into using RSS to syndicate the archive of photographs I have taken. I was planning...
Aled, the spec is quite clear. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss#ltenclosuregtSubelementOfLtitemgt "It has three required attributes. url says where the...
I understand that the attribute is mandatory, and was trying to find if there was any way around it. I was hoping to avoid introducing another namespace as it...
Actually I was thinking of going the other way and giving the length a value of max int or max long, just to see if there were any aggregators/readers that...
An aggregator can use it to determine if it should download something now or wait to do it overnight. ... From: Aled Davies To: RSS2-Support@yahoogroups.com ...
An aggregator can use it to determine if it should download something now or wait to do it overnight. Does any known aggregator actually use it? ... From: Aled...
An aggregator can also use it to determine if it's already downloaded the enclosure. ... From: Dave Winer To: RSS2-Support@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July...
Does any known aggregator support these actions? If not then the use of an attribute value of -1 may be a way around Aled's problem, while still keeping to the...
Thanks for the suggestions and the help! Appreciated! Walter Rhett Griot, Rhett's Charleston our electronic serial journal can be acessed or bookmarked at: ...
Having spent the last couple of days looking at RSS, you've got me convinced that my websites (or the news-based ones at least) should be offering an RSS feed...
This is actually kinda tricky because the xml statement at the top of the RSS file uses the same delimiter as PHP. It looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" ?>...
I use the following script for my blog. The blog is entirely PHP with a MySQL backbone. http://www.io.com/~phlbbrtn/blog/ I use a cron job on the server to...
... Um, wget seems to have more options and is less likely to 'be difficult'. There's also curl. My past experiences with lynx lead me to believe it's not the...
... greatest at ... Sure, whatever. I am just telling what works for me. What "works for me" is fully automated and requires no ongoing maintenance. I did not...
... Likewise, I found lynx's lack of features found in wget and curl to be a problem as my programming needs grew. Like using authentication and cookies. ... ...
I think this pointless discussion is 50 miles wide of the point. You don't like what I use productively every day? That's your right. Someone asked for a way...
There seems to be some confusion with this issue, so I hope no-one will feel I'm attempting to patronise them if I try and cover all bases. First of all, I'd...