Oh sorry I shouldn't be posting dev questions in standards ML right? Should I bring this to jdev or that social ML you mentioned? Sorry I didn't mean to spam the standards mailing list.
> Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 10:53:34 -0600> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > [email protected]> Subject: Re: [Standards] Pub/Sub & RSS> > On 05/21/2008 > 10:09 PM, Kelly S wrote:> > Thanks for the reply!> > > > I took a look at > what your saying about NodeID and I understand a bit> > more clearly now. Wow > the Pub/Sub spec is large!> > Don't be afraid, it's just comprehensive. :)> > > > Anyways. I'm thinking of writing a service where users can> > "subscribe" > to feeds off the web. A service will be monitoring all> > "feeds" and pulling > the RSS/Atom/whatever off of the web and> > populating the Pub/Sub nodes in > batch so users get notifications.> > > > So really the service will create > the new node to represent the news> > feed if its not already found in the > Pub/Sub query and then add it to> > its "queue" of feeds to poll.> > > > I'm > not quite sure what XEP to use to allow a user to "request"> > pulling of a > feed. I haven't figured that part out yet.> > You can request the items in a > feed by using this:> > > http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html#subscriber-retrieve> > > I'm > also not sure if I want to mix Atom nodes with RSS nodes etc. I> > could > create 1 format to use for the "entry" and transform them to> > all match but > for sites which add extra metadata to entries such as> > Digg with its > DiggCount I would like to maintain that. That is the> > beauty of XML :)> > > But RSS isn't XML. :P> > > That way Jabber clients who understand extensible > items can display> > them.> > > > I like the idea of the NodeID being the > feeds url because then this> > "polling" service can use the feeds URL easily > as the SET after> > downloading content.> > Sure. :)> > > Any suggestions / > recommendations would be great to hear!Another item> > I am unclear about is > as I am polling for news data, how can I easily> > check if an "entry" exists > already? I'd rather not have to keep a> > cache somewhere of all the items I > have created already.> > > > Although performance is going to suck if I have > to check every entry> > before inserting. Is there a way to batch insert, and > disallow> > duplicate entries based on *something* like entry title or > something?> > > > > > It's nice to be back in Jabber land :) I'm back into > the old mindset> > where I have a ZILLION ideas rushing into my head about > all the crazy> > things I can do with these XEPs lol.> > > > Any help would > be great!> > > > Thanks so much!> > You might want to join this list for > discussion:> > http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/social> > "XMPP and > Social Networking, Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together!"> > /psa> _________________________________________________________________ If you like crossword puzzles, then you'll love Flexicon, a game which combines four overlapping crossword puzzles into one! http://g.msn.ca/ca55/208
