11 Feb
2004
11 Feb
'04
3:52 p.m.
Hi Sander,
I was trying to look at the RSS feed of the SmallWiki
at kilana and at
first BottomFeeder (my favourite Smalltalk-based newsreader) was not
able to read it. James Robertson looked at it and found problems with
the RSS you generate (look at his comments below). He made
BottomFeeder more forgiving, but it would be good if you could fix the
feed.
I think BottomFeeder should ignore any unknown namespaces and just
display the <description>...</description> thing, that is also
available and where I currently render the modification date only. In a
previous version I tried to render the first paragraph of the page or
the first 500 characters as plain text, but this didn't work out well.
This is the reason why I decided to render the whole document body as
HTML into its own namespace. My reader displays the page in-lined in
the browser-window and I think it is very convenient. Readers that
cannot handle HTML should ignore that section, but obviously this can
be a problem because the code inside
<content:encoded><![CDATA[ ... ]]></content>
is not guaranteed to be valid XML as SmallWiki users can put (wrong)
HTML code manually inside any page. Anyway, I don't know what to do on
this issue? I thought that XML-Parsers will ignore anything inside
<![CDATA[ ... ]]>, but obviously this is wrong or I am doing something
wrong with the encoding of the CDATA?
And a feature request (in case you have too much free
time ;). I
subscribed to the Changes page of the Moose wiki, to track all the
changes that occur to that wiki. It would be nice if I could click on
the entry and it would open the page for me in my browser (like I can
do on my Slashdot feed and others). I guess the entries in the XML
should contain some URL information.
[...]
I was wrong about my 'feature request'. I
looked a bit at the XML
SmallWiki generates and I saw the you actually _do_ generate item
links. So it should work. It must be a problem with my setup or with
BottomFeeder.
Yes, this is what I intended to write ;)
Cheers,
Lukas
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Lukas Renggli
http://renggli.freezope.org