RE: [syndication] Hello and Help

["Ben Parker" <ben@africaonline.com>]

Lilian -

1. You can convert RSS feeds to HTML or JavaScript at your site, with a
script that regularly grabs the RSS files and dumps formatted HTML or
Javascript into your file system.

You don't say your scripting language of choice, but for Perl, mimanet.pl is
a quick and straightforward way to make JavaScript out of RSS. Another one
that makes HTML, but not Javascript is pullrss - which I found more
forgiving than rss2html.

mimanet's RSS Fetcher: http://www.mimanet.com/scripts/rss_fetcher.html
pullrss: http://www.webreference.com/scripts/
rss2html: http://www.webreference.com/perl/tutorial/8/


For other scripting languages I am not so sure what your choices are.

2. Or you can convert them on the fly to Javascript through one of the live
RSS->JavaScript converters which often allow you
Conditions usually apply to these services which can get hammered by your
traffic.

Wytheville http://www.wc.cc.va.us/services/news/default.asp
RSSMonkey http://brandbenbrown.com/display.html/rssmonkey
JavaScript RSS-Box Viewer: http://piefke.helma.at/rss/ and also here:
http://samby01.jamby.net/rss/

Good luck,

Ben Parker
Editor-in-Chief
Africa Online
PO Box 63017, Nairobi, Kenya
http://www.africaonline.com




> -----Original Message-----
> From: liliplanet [mailto:liliplanet@yahoo.com]
> Sent: 09 March 2002 03:25
> To: syndication@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [syndication] Hello and Help
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Total newbie at this, yet have spent much time trying to figure this
> out. Problem - I have the xml, rdf links for RSS feeds, now what
> do I do to convert it to html and insert it onto my website. Have all
> the modules installed, but just can't get my head around this
> tech. Have read every possible article on this. So far, my vast
> experience covers creating a RSS file and validating it. After that?
>
> Please would you be so kind to point me in the right direction.
> Thank You,
> (a little embarrased) Lilian
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