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Re: [syndication] Question: discovering sources
At 10:17 AM 10/13/00 +0100, you wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Ian Davis wrote:
> xmlTree only lists xml documents. These include RSS, scriptingNews,
> RDF, NewsML, WDDX and WML among many others. WML is the markup
> language used by WAP devices and is fully compliant XML. You might be
> confusing it with HDML which isn't XML at all.
One problem is that some wml documents are not fully xml-compliant
(but can still work with WAP phones). The BBC's trial wml site (which I
found on xml tree a while back) used to be like this, though it may be
better now.
True. What I'm finding is that there's a lot of unstructured WML that
passes through in a client. I've made the mistake myself when I was
authoring some stuff on TNL.net and found that it was going through OK. The
main thing I'm trying to do is to provide a universal tool that parses any
type of XML file into either an HTML, WML, or HDML form. I intend to
eventually also include RSS and others.
My personal goal (and mind you, this is a personal project not related to
my day to day work) is to find a way to take content (in any form) and
distribute it in any other form. Once I've built enough of that engine, I
plan to offer it free to anyone who wants to download the source code and
install it. Of course, some of you might scoff at my approach since I'm
authoring the stuff in ASP. However, if I manage to do it in ASP, porting
it to PHP, perl or java shouldn't be too hard :)
Also - the Guardian newspaper, obviously uncertain about which format to
go for has opted for structured HTML instead, which is a shame:
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/distribution
cheers,
Libby
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