Re: FoRK archives in XML/RSS via XSLT?

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From: Dan Brickley (Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Sat May 06 2000 - 10:14:57 PDT

On Sat, 6 May 2000, Edd Dumbill wrote:

> On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 01:16:10PM +0100, Dan Brickley wrote:
> > Or I could just hack a screenscraper in Perl. Actually I just did but
> > it's ugly and (for some reason - will fiddle more later) rather slow.
> > http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/rdf-dev/roads/cgi-bin/desire/xent2rss
> > (no guarantees -- flakey, buggy, slow etc and doesn't track
> > URL for current month)
>
> I've just used my RSS proggy I wrote for Zope [1] to suck in this RSS file.
> HTMLization is available at http://www.usefulinc.com/forkRSS/view
> (thoroughly untarted-up).

Ah, the power of technology -- we've roundtripped it back into HTML
again...

Now if we could drop in channels for, say, the FoRK required reading
list (to which I'd definitely add your xmlhack.com for sure, beats
getting xml-dev in my inbox :-)

From http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/LOCAL/faq-fork.html :

            22. Okay, how do I get bits?

            By regularly reading the FoRK "required reading" list:
                 Above the Crowd
                 dist-obj Archive (summer 96 - present)
                 FoRK Archive (spring 96 - present)
                 I, Cringely
                 Need to Know
                 New York Times
                 Packet
                 Rapidly Changing Face of Computing
                 Red Rock Eater Digest
                 Release 1
                 Slashdot.org , the ULTIMATE geek news site
                 Stating the Obvious
                 Tasty Bits from the Technology Front / TBTF
                 Sources
                 TechDirt
                 The Onion

We'd have something rather handy...

> This also mirrors the XML at http://www.usefulinc.com/forkRSS which is
> available almost-instantly, a lot quicker than Dan's program
> (obviously).
>
> I've set up a cronjob to mirror this hourly.

Thanks. I nearly bothered doing that but though it'd distract me from
getting round to an XSLT version...

> Unfortunately it shows up that Dan's prog is currently generating the
> wrong URL for each post...

Gah, sorry, based it on a Perl scraper for http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/
(1000s of hypermail-ish mail archives) that mostly 'just worked' when pointed
at FoRK. Fixed now.

Dan

>
> -- Edd
>
> (Zope's too cool, this took me a minute to set up!)
>
> [1] http://www.zope.org/Members/edmundd/SiteSummary
>
>

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