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News backends
Jack your brain right into the raw dataflow...
Erm, ok hook your application up to the raw desktopian.org
headlines backend <g>. We've got them in two flavors:
'recentnews.txt' is the older system and is still maintained for backward compatibility with
existing news-gathering applications.
The XML files, on the other hand, are definitely the wave of the future, a much better way to design your
news backend or gathering app down the road.
It's well beyond my meager abilities to discuss the advantages of XML, but suffice it to say
that it's a very flexible web-compatible data-encapsulation format (a bit like csv for the web, for you
database types), that isolates the data from it's presentation (the data is stored in 'data islands' within
an html doc, or as separate files, and is presented and formatted utilizing cascading style sheets). For this
news-gathering application, it simply provides news-gathering apps with a solid cross-platform, easy-to-use
formated headlines file.
News Trackers
Applications which can help you track our headlines range from scripts to full applications
to server-based html news-aggregation pages. These utilize a variety of text-based, RSS,
XML, Scripting News & OCS-formated
backends, and I have full write-ups available on my News Trackers page.
Custom text-backend based apps & scripts:
Netscape RSS/XML-based:
OCS-based apps:
Background/links:
For information on My Netscape's RSS 0.91 format check this page out.
For more information on RSS/XML application development in general check out:
And for some huge lists of pre-aggregated headlines from sites throughout the net, check out:
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