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maintaining an rss feed

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 8:13 am
by bwolfsohn
It looks like (to me) All the examples in the xml section seem to be dealing with reading, or creating an entire page.

Is there a function to add an item to an existing rss (xml) feed ??

Re: maintaining an rss feed

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 8:58 am
by rdonnay
I don't know anything about RSS feeds.

Is there a reason I should learn about this?

Re: maintaining an rss feed

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 9:03 am
by bwolfsohn
rss feeds are basically xml documents.

here is a typical rss feed...

http://www.npr.org/rss/rss.php?id=1001

as each item is added to the rss feed, it's added as another item node at the top of the file.

i would think there are a number of express users who need/are using rss feeds... Bobby might be one.. i think cliff is another...

any functionality that would apply to an rss feed would apply to any xml document.

Re: maintaining an rss feed

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 9:38 am
by rdonnay
I have been meaning to try to find time to learn about RSS but I usually respond first to requests from customers.
Nobody has ever asked for this.

Re: maintaining an rss feed

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 11:27 pm
by skiman
Hi Brian,

I'm using the Free Chilkat XML parser.
https://www.chilkatsoft.com/refdoc/xChilkatXmlRef.html

It's fast, robust and rather easy to use:
oXML := CreateObject("Chilkat.xml") and you have an object where you can use all the methods as described in the link above.