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Re: I have my RSS feed... now what? :)
Hi Julian.
Thanks for these pointers! I really appreciate you feedback and
effort.
> A few points.
> - You're generating RSS 0.90 which is a bit out of date now.
> - There's no <language> element
> - The <channel>.<description> is a default Slash entry. It could be
> more descriptive.
Yes, that's a blunder... when I saw it I requested it to be fixed.
It will take a while though.
> - I'd really like to see abstracts in the <item>.<description> tag
> but then I said that before...
Absolutely, this will get done. It will take a while though.
> - There's no link to the RSS on either Markupworld or TopXML.
Yes that should be resolved today or tomorrow.
> Is this straight out of the box Slashcode?
Yes, but straight out of the box it didn't seem to work.
Plus it choked on a feed from
http://www.xmlforasp.net/xml/xmlforasp.netrss.xml
---
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";
xmlns:tl="http://xmlforasp.net/namespace";
xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/";>
---
Notice the 3 characters before <?xml... apparently that's what's
throwing things off. Dan Wahlin (XMLForASP.com) says no one else is
having this problem. So, it's a bug in the Slashcode XML::RSS that
makes it a problem for us.
So... we're working through these issues.
PLUS I am trying to use the 'slashboxes' to showing more recent
YahooGroups headlines - but the darn slashboxes keep switching off
(ie not displaying). Grrrr.
> As you solve the issues above
> perhaps you could report back what you did so that other Slashcode
> users can benefit.
Absolutely. We've already submitted two 'enhancements' to
fix 'undocumented features' and this will be the third. Gotta love
OSS eh?
Are there other Slahcode users in here? It would be helpful to know
how most of us are using the RS feed. I imagine the EXCELLENT Radio
Userland and Blogging are the most common ways. Does Slashcode
figure? Anyone know of a poll on this?
Cheers,
Mark.