Re: [RSS-DEV] Radio UserLand RSS idiosyncrasies

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

A better quesiton, perhaps, might be to ask what's wrong with the existing title
and category such that it needs changing?

> BTW, Bill Kearney gave you some very bad advice. Don't modify
> UserLand-supplied code if you can possibly avoid it, when we update the
> script, you'll lose your mods. This is one of the most frequently updated
> scripts. The callback mechanism explained above, which Bill knows about (his
> script uses it) allows you to put your code in an update-safe place. Please
> do it that way, you'll avoid much pain. Thanks.

What I didn't unleash on the poor guy was the full explanation of what it takes
to try to integrate changes in the Radio product.  It wasn't bad advice in the
sense that if he's a NEW user this simple one place to start. Had I gone into
the long drawn-out explanation of what callbacks are all about and how
writeRSSfile uses scriptError and such it'd have likely overwhelmed the guy.
As to what I do or don't know about, how about leaving that to me to state next
time?

If he wants to see what it takes to create a tool he's more than welcome to pick
apart my RDF.root tool.
http://www.ideaspace.net/users/wkearney/misc/radio/radio8/rdf/

In that tool I demonstrate how to add a callback into the RSS publishing
process.  A callback that can do both override the existing RSS routines or run
in parallel to it.

-Bill Kearney