in reply to Re^4: Recommended RSS-Feed for PerlMonks??? (polling)
in thread Recommended RSS-Feed for PerlMonks???

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        

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Re^6: Recommended RSS-Feed for PerlMonks??? (XML)
by LanX (Saint) on Dec 05, 2008 at 14:30 UTC
    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        

        Ah, and you seem to be one of the guys who reply without reading the thread?

        Recommended RSS-Feed for PerlMonks???

        I asked for a recommended RSS Feed, too see how other people solve this task and maybe improving the local RSS help-page this way, nothing else.

        And I think I was quite friendly strugling to express this in English.

        Well your reactions are not really friendly ... donc, en effet, je penses que c'etait la dernière conversation qu'on a eu en anglais...