Eugene Y. Vasserman wrote: > How about some RSS feed support for plucker-desktop? Lots of sites are > beginning to use this for portable news format. Fairly easy to > implement in Python. > see http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/ for info... > since this is an xml-based(?) format, what about pure xml feeds (not > rss)? > any thoughts?
I have RSS working in JPluck. The next prerelease will ship with an XSLT stylesheet for transforming RSS(and probably RDF as well). Using the stylesheet you can transform the feed any way you want. One problem is that the links in the RSS feed usually point to PDA-unfriendly pages. Another problem is that servers rarely return a correct content-type for XML content (ranging from text/plain to application/octet-stream) so I have to rework the content detection somewhat. Yet another problem is that the descriptions sometimes contain raw HTML, encoded using entities. For example <a href="link.html">link<a>. (The RSS DTD doesn't allow for elements inside <description>.) As for public XML feeds with real content, these are all but nonexistent. For instance, NewsML would be a good candidate for display on a PDA, but there are no NewsML feeds last time I checked. The only public XML content that I found useful is the weather XML at http://weather.interceptvector.com/. Regards -Laurens _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
