On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:10 PM, David Primmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Abdera has incomplete support for RSS. The initial commit mentioned > "So far the code is capable of parsing reasonably decent RSS 2.0 feeds > and partially parsing RSS 1.0." Don't know where it is now. > > from my previous link: > "Also, there has been some work on getting the RSS support beefed up > although I've been waiting on the guy to get the legal clearance to > contribute that work back to the project. Since I'm not the one doing > that work and I don't really know the guy doing it, I'm not going to > hold my breath. If someone (ahem) wanted to take a whack at fleshing > out the RSS support in Abdera I wouldn't be heartbroken in the least > :-)." > > here's the latest: > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/abdera/java/trunk/contrib/rss/src/main/java/org/apache/abdera/contrib/rss/ > Hmm, the spec is pretty vague about what ContentType.FEED is supposed to accept, so I'm not sure if this is an issue or not. I would like to use abdera for this (assuming that we continue to use it for AtomPub, of course), but for now it probably makes sense to stick with ROME until we're sure whether or not the RSS support in Abdera is adequate. It should be as trivial as modifying FeedProcessor.java to use org.apache.abdera instead of com.sun.syndication, right? > davep > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Kevin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I asked about this a few months back I was told that Abdera didn't > > support RSS -- is that not the case anymore? > > > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:21 PM, David Primmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >> Just wanted to footnote this one, that abdera has feed parsing as well > >> and may be useful here in the future when it improves its RSS support. > >> It would be fairly easy to swap out rome for abdera since abdera is > >> already a dep in the project. > >> > >> here's a comparison > >> http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/rome_vs_abdera > >> > >> davep > >> > > >
