oi Jeff!! i sent you email with a link off list. might assist you.
Crit -- ------------------------------------ Tuesday, September 2, 2003, 11:33:53 AM, you wrote: J> on 9/2/03 11:19 AM, Jochem van Dieten at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Jeff wrote: >>> I'm new to the whole thing, but isn't an RSS feed just an XML document? >> >> Yes. >> >> >>> What's the idea, just read it into a variable then output it? >> >> That is one option. Which problem would you want an RSS feed to >> solve for you? >> J> I was looking here: J> http://news.yahoo.com/rss/ J> And I thought it'd be cool to maybe display a couple of the top headlines J> from a couple of the feeds in a little table cell someplace on a page, J> linking to the story in a new window... J> This seems easy enough, but I have zero experience with both XML and rss, so J> I was just wondering what a 'best practices' approach was to it, and what J> others did or didn't do when using those things. They seem cool and J> normally, during the course of a day, we don't have a single client who'd do J> *anything* with this stuff, so I was just going to jump in and try to play J> with it for absolutely no reason, except to learn how to do it. Maybe I'll J> wind up with something cool that someone will say, "hey, can you do that on J> our site?" J> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
