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in thread Recommended RSS-Feed for PerlMonks???

Hi

Of course I intend to spare serverload! Thats why I will certainly not publish any pollscript for RAT!

But do I get you right, there is actually no RSS Feed that allows displaying thread-trees and you suggest that I ask one of the devs to implement it?

Cheers Rolf

UPDATE: I started this thread because I don't want to reinvent the wheel, but which is the best wheel the monks use out there?

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Re^5: Recommended RSS-Feed for PerlMonks??? (XML)
by tye (Sage) on Dec 05, 2008 at 13:53 UTC

    You seem to have ignored: 'The thread information boils down to "parent ID" and "root ID", which are exposed in at least one XML feed'.

    - tye        

      Maybe a misunderstanding ... I thought if a feed exposes this info, a feed reader like Thunderbird should be able to extract them and produce a thread-outline! So one only need to recommend this "rich" feed!

      But you want to tell me instead of parsing the RAT-webpage I should better write a client parsing this feed. Right?

      As I said I'm new to RSS ...

      Cheers Rolf

        Ah, so you are using Thunderbird and it produces thread outlines for other RSS feeds? That certainly more useful information for figuring out what you want.

        You seem to be waiting for somebody to figure this problem out for you. And nobody seems to be doing that. So I suggest you go read up on RSS and/or Thunderbird and figure out what is needed in an RSS feed in order for you to get the behavior that you want. That seems a lot less work and more promising than trying to write a "parse RAT's HTML" script.

        Then when you have something much more concrete to request, you'll be more likely to get the RSS feed "improved" or help in writing a wrapper for the RSS feed (or something).

        - tye