RE: RE: RSS Headline Sucker

Sorry for taking so long to respond, didnt see your request till now.
I was running this out of Access (ick), although the idea is the same on any database (e.g. mySQL):

ExternalNewsSourceID  ->  autoNumber (internal unique id)
               Title  ->  text  (name of the site)
                Link  ->  text  (link to the site, not the source)
         Description  ->  text  (description of the site)
              Source  ->  text  (URL for the actual feed)
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I populated this list by hand by selecting sources from xmltree.com.
Let me know if you need more detail. -r0

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RE: RE: RE: RSS Headline Sucker
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 01, 2000 at 00:05 UTC

Trying this again in HTML...Wow, your code is exactly what I need. Cannot get it to run on Access though.

This is the content of my first table named ExternalNewsSources


ExternalNewsSourceID	Title	Link	Description	Source
1	SlashDot	http://slashdot.org/	Headlines	http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf

Format of the first table is as suggested

ExternalNewsSourceID -> autoNumber (internal unique id)
Title -> text (name of the site)
Link -> text (link to the site, not the source)
Description -> text (description of the site)

Source -> text (URL for the actual feed)

My second table is named ExternalNews and has the following columns:

SourceID -text

PostDate -text

Title -text

Link -text

Description -text

I have a System DSN named TESTSERVER as in the example and I'm running your example code as published.

I don't get any errors.... just no data in the tables. Do I have something simple wrong?

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RE: RE: RE: RE: RSS Headline Sucker

by Anonymous Monk on Oct 01, 2000 at 01:24 UTC

It looks like some sites parse while others don't. I added more sources and I'm starting to get some information in the second table.

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RE: RE: RE: RSS Headline Sucker
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 30, 2000 at 23:58 UTC

Wow, your code is exactly what I need. Cannot get it to run on Access though. This is the content of my first table named ExternalNewsSources which has only one row at the moment. Columns: ExternalNewsSourceID Title Link Description Source With data: 1 SlashDot http://slashdot.org/ Headlines http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf Format of the first table is as suggested ExternalNewsSourceID -> autoNumber (internal unique id) Title -> text (name of the site) Link -> text (link to the site, not the source) Description -> text (description of the site) Source -> text (URL for the actual feed) My second table is named ExternalNews and has the following columns: SourceID -text PostDate -text Title -text Link -text Description -text I have a System DSN named TESTSERVER as in the example and I'm running your example code as published. I don't get any errors.... just no data in the tables. Do I have something simple wrong?

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