Re: [syndication] Re: [radio-userland] First 24 hours completed

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

That's the way our aggregator works too.

The goal is to turn an <item> into a string.

If a <title> and <link> are present it uses them, if not, it just uses the
<description>.

Again, before anyone jumps in and says that I made it this way, I didn't.

It's common practice in the weblogging world to just write a paragraph.
Manila supports more structured views called "News Items," a feature we
added for O'Reilly back when we were partnering with them, like Slashdot or
whatever, but not that many people use them.

Wearing my Dave-the-Blogger hat, I know why. Because items often have
several links and rarely have a title. I've been submitting items recently
to Metafilter where they have a requirement for a link and a title, but have
found it to be a very limiting box to write in.

I'd be interested in any real-world ideas people have for this. The
<scriptingNews> approach was not optimal, it depended on string
substitution, which worked most of the time, but when it didn't work it
often produced spectacularly stupid gaffes.

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Morbus Iff" <morbus@disobey.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 6:22 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] Re: [radio-userland] First 24 hours completed


> >The way I treat RSS .92 feeds in NewsIsFree is to arbitrarily take the
>  >first <A ....>...</A> and use that as link and title. The next version
>  >of the site will not REQUIRE title and links, so it should be better.
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> I ignore what I don't know, and try not to guess at what I do know, so
> AmphetaDesk doesn't do any transposing or "first link is title" stuff. At
> this point, if the <title> and <link> are blank, I display the
> <description> as the feed has it written. If <title> and <link> are there,
> then I'll use them along with the <description>. In essence, AmphetaDesk
> doesn't care if it's been sent a <title> <link> or <description> (unless
> all three are missing). It displays what it gets.
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