Are there any plans to expand Perl Monks' RDF feed? I've recently discovered the joys of Bloglines and am happily using it to keep up-to-date on a variety of topics. However, the PerlMonks feed consists only of the headlines of the messages (thus the filename, of course). Here's a sample:

POE module error
Web and newlines, aka perl vs ^M
regexp for searching incremental expressions
Perl::TK - fileevent and script execution theory

Quite often, the headline isn't really enough for me to figure out whether I should read the message. It would be more useful if it would also include the first, say, 200-300 characters from each message. I realize PerlMonks development is volunteer-driven, and I'm happy to have at least the headlines, but I'm hoping someone reading this will get inspired to tackle the job of expanding the RDF feed a bit. Any volunteers?

Wally Hartshorn

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Re: Expanding the headlines.rdf feed?
by castaway (Parson) on Mar 12, 2004 at 17:46 UTC
    I can envision expanding it to include Author and Section the post is in (supposing there's room for such, Im not really savvy on RSS), but I think adding a synopsis would be kind of difficult. Quite often the first few lines of a post won't tell you a thing about it, and where do you stop?

    The plan was to enhance (or rather recreate) enough to output similar info as newest nodes xml generator.

    So, did you have concrete ideas in mind for an actual way of implementing it?

    C.

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Re: Expanding the headlines.rdf feed?
by Kanji (Parson) on Mar 12, 2004 at 22:28 UTC
    Any volunteers?

    You? Seriously, you want something like that go join pmdev and contribute patches to get the desired behaviour.

    If that's too much effort or you don't think you have the skills, there's nothing to stop you grabbing LWP::Simple, XML::RSS and XML::Simple (or your favourite alternatives) and building your own extended feed.

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        --k.


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