RSS or ATOM to syndicate content?
Which is best? I always produce ATOM feeds, as they seem more comprehensive, but I'm not sure which is technically better. ...
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How to show article link and sub-feed link in an RSS feed?
I'm working on some RSS feeds for a custom task system we have. The main feed will show a list of tasks assigned to the current user. The link attribute for each task returned points to the web page for that task. However, tasks themselves have an RSS feed for updates, and I want to be able to provide a link for that RSS feed with the...
XML Parsing Error: SYSTEM or PUBLIC, the URI is missing
I am parsing an RSS feed from the following URL: http://rss.sciam.com/ScientificAmerican-Global?format=xml // $xml_text is filled with the contents read from the URL $xml_parser = xml_parser_create(); $res = xml_parse($xml_parser, $xml_text); if (!$res) { $error = xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)). " at line ...
TFS checkin RSS feed
How can I to generate an RSS feed of Team Foundation Server commit messages? In Visual Studio's Source Control Explorer, the "View History" option produces a nice GUI view. Likewise, the command line tf history /recursive /stopafter:40 . produces a nice GUI view. I'd like an RSS feed that would supply the same, or similar, informa...
What are the legalities of repackaging other's RSS feeds into a new presentation?
I know that services like my.yahoo.com allow you to add content from RSS feeds to your personal page, but in general they are links which draw the user to the site which provided the feed. What are the legalities and implications of using RSS feeds as a data source for a site which repackages the data so as to be unrecognizable that it ...
RSS Item updates
I'm working on an RSS feed for a custom tasking system we use, and I'm still wrapping my head around how things should work. What I want to have is a feed for each user that shows tasks assigned to them, and additionally a feed for each task that shows updates for the task. What I want to know right now concerns the user feed. When a ...
Program for real time presentation
In my school there is a big flat screen monitor being displayed into the hallways that is going to waste. The school wants to see some real time information along with some power presentations. Something like maybe information from an rss feed marqueeing along the bottom with a pst file or flash playing towards the top. Any ideas on ho...
Access to old, no longer available, Feed entries.
I am working on a project that requires reliable access to historic feed entries not necessarily available in the current feed of the website. I have found several ways to access such data, but none of them give me all the characteristics I need. Look at this as a brainstorm. I will tell you how much I have found and you can contribute ...
Find out what is the new data from an RSS feed, compared with entries already in the database. Then put new entries in db. How?
Let's say I have a database, and an RSS feed. I have to find out what is the new data from an RSS feed, that isn't already in the database. How would you go about approaching this problem? ...
PHP access to iTunes tags in an RSS feed
I need to get access to the iTunes tags in an RSS feed using PHP. I've used simplepie before for podcast feeds, but I'm not sure how to get the iTunes tags using it. Is there a way to use simplepie to do it or is there a better way? Okay I tried Simple XML. All this (the code below) seems to work $feed = simplexml_load_file('http://...
Creating a News Ticker which is updated from an RSS Feed
I need to create a news ticker that is updated via an RSS feed. Any ideas on how to implement this? I would prefer Javascript but any language is acceptable. ...
How do I turn an RSS feed back into RSS?
According to the feedparser documentation, I can turn an RSS feed into a parsed object like this: import feedparser d = feedparser.parse('http://feedparser.org/docs/examples/atom10.xml') but I can't find anything showing how to go the other way; I'd like to be able do manipulate 'd' and then output the result as XML: print d.toXML() ...
What is the best PHP lib/class to generate RSS/Atom
Hello, I have to produce RSS/Atom feed in various applications, and I want to know a good lib/class wich is able to produce both, and which already handle all common problems. For example the one I used for year does not put the right format for date, so my feed is not well handled by several aggregators. Thanks, Cédric Update : W...
Why does my RSS feed duplicate some entries?
Hello, when reading my RSS feed with Thunderbird feed reader, some entries are duplicated. Google reader does not have the same problem. Here is the faulty feed http://plcoder.net/rss.php?rss=Blog There is a problem, but where? Regards, Cédric update : I add guid but the problem remain. Anothers feeds does not duplicate like mine, ...
How would you implement an RSS feed in a Java web environment?
I am working on an implementation for RSS feeds for a collaboration platform. Say there are several thousands of different collaboration rooms where users can share information, and each needs to publish an RSS feed with news, changes, etc... Using a plain servlet (i.e. http://www.site.com/RSSServlet/?id=roomID) is costly, every time an...
Cooliris fetching from google docs:
Hey, We're creating a Interaction design pattern website for a class. We've been using google docs to create the patterns list during the classes, sharing it with the teacher for evaluation. So the environment is this: We've been able to fetch a single image from each presentation we want to display, such as: http://docs.google.com/f...
How would you make an RSS-feeds entries available longer than they're accessible from the source?
My computer at home is set up to automatically download some stuff from RSS feeds (mostly torrents and podcasts). However, I don't always keep this computer on. The sites I subscribe to have a relatively large throughput, so when I turn the computer back on it has no idea what it missed between the the time it was turned off and the late...
StackOverflow atom feed to use with VS2008 Start Page
Is there a URL for StackOverflow that I can use on the VS startpage in place of the never updated MS page? The URL that VS uses can be set on the Tools->Options::Startup dialog. I've tried http://stackoverflow.com/feeds VS complaints with the following error: The current news channel might not be a valid RSS feed, or your interne...
Can I get statistics on RSS readership?
Is there any way to get numbers on how many people are reading an RSS feed? My understanding of the way feed readers work (e.g. Google Reader) is that they check the feed periodically, cache it, and serve the cached copy to whoever asks for it until it's refreshed - which would imply that there's no way to get reliable numbers on readers...
DOCTYPE RSS & HTML entities
I have an "ldquo", "rdquo" and several other entities under my RSS feed. Seems like if I add <!DOCTYPE rss [ <!ENTITY % HTMLspec PUBLIC "-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1 for XHTML//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-special.ent"> %HTMLspec; below the xml tag and above the rss tag then I'll be able to include those entities....