Thanks Johan, much appreciated... Funny... the author's name is the same name on the site that has only the word "manganese" on it. :)
Oh! Manganese! That explains everything! :) Anyway, Thanks Johan, I'm gonna see if I can find a copy of the book or the DRK maybe. Isaac > DRK3 includes CF code/examples for RSS reader and a feed > generator. > O'Reilly book - "Content Syndication with RSS" by Ben > Hammersley is pretty > good with many examples. Covers various "standards" well. > Johan > -------------------------------------------- > Johan Steenkamp > www.assetnow.com > -------------------------------------------- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 9:00 AM > Subject: ot: real simple syndication (rss) >> I realize this is off-topic, but at the moment, my take >> on it is that real > simple syndication is real stupid for something that seems > to be so widely > talked about and/or used. I mean, I see people putting RSS > stuff on their > blogs and whatnot all the time, so yesterday I tried to do > the same 'cause a > friend of mine mentioned wanting to be able to read the > onTap framework blog > on the bus on his way to work. All seemed well except that > where he's able > to use hyperlinks from other folks rss feeds, he doesn't > seem to be able to > use any of mine. So I went looking for an rss reader to > see if I could > duplicate the problem. And what I've found is that, > although there seems to > be a "work group" for RSS, the vast majority of RSS > information on the web > is found in unnoficial (looking ?) sites with lots of > circular links to > poorly written documents which don't really explain it, > FAQ's that don't > exist, and web pages containing only the word "manganese" > (try > http://blogspace.com/rss/ and hit the first link at the > top that says > "Content Syndication with XML and RSS weblog"). The only > xml schemas I've > been able to find for rss (though xsd is _the_ standard > for defining xml > dialects like rss) were not only written in an old version > of xsd, but also > didn't validate as a result of using elements that didn't > exist in the xsd > or an xsd referenced by namespace. >> >> Anyway... If anybody on the list has any "real simple" >> rss information (as > opposed to the really incomplete, really complicated, > really undocumented, > really broken and really not well maintained rss info I've > found), I'd be > greatly appreciative. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Isaac >> >> >> >> >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~| > Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 > Subscription: > http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 > Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubsc > ribe.cfm?user=633.558.4 > This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by > CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion > Hosting. > http://www.cfhosting.com s. isaac dealey 972-490-6624 team macromedia volunteer http://www.macromedia.com/go/team chief architect, tapestry cms http://products.turnkey.to onTap is open source http://www.turnkey.to/ontap ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
