Dear Monks, I think every one of us has his/her own ideas about how this site should be organised, what it should look like etc.

If all articles/questions were available in XML without the perlmonks markup, it would be VERY easy for people to organise articles/questions the way they want on their own site (local or hosted somewhere).

Also, to generate one XML request, i assume only one query would have to be done on the SQL server, and a little but of parsing after that. This could really drop the load on the perlmonks.org servers.

How do other monks feel about this?

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Re: Make questions available in XML
by Louis_Wu (Chaplain) on Dec 03, 2002 at 18:35 UTC
    Are you talking about something like the current XML link on your node? What else are you looking for? As far as I can see, if you postfix &displaytype=xml to a URL, you've got your XML feed. Am I missing something in your question?
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      Well... your reply is not in the xml version of the node (nor are mine)

      In other words, there are no links to subnodes/replies
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        Hi Jaap,

        There are links for subnodes/replies to view them in XML format. just click on the node itself ( The title ). Every node is visible in XML format with the query "?node_id=whatever&displaytype=xml"

        BioHazard
        reading between the lines is my real pleasure
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Re: Make questions available in XML
by Jaap (Curate) on Dec 03, 2002 at 18:31 UTC
    Am i an idiot or what? Just found out what the little 'xml' links do. DUH!
    This is great! THe possibilities are endless. Thank you perlmonks!
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Re: Make questions available in XML
by Jaap (Curate) on Dec 03, 2002 at 18:36 UTC
    It looks like nodes like "Seekers of Perl Wisdom" contain no real data. How can i retrieve the node_id's of new nodes?
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