Re: RSS Clients

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

> Perhaps, instead, someone should just create a javascript that can 
actually 
> parse an RSS file? Remove the aggregator, and place the processing 
on the 
> client (browser) end... I know someone wrote a js to do Minimal XML 
in 50 
> lines - decent enough to throw into a .js file and include in a 
page. One 
> entirely focused on RSS would be smaller, I'm sure.

You can use XSLT directly on the file.  I'm cobbling together one.  
I've already got on leveraged on Tristan's rssManip .ASP code.  This 
requires the .ASP to live on an IIS server.  The XML can be anywhere, 
presumably on it's original place.  The page would get refreshed 
anytime someone reloaded it.  The server is the one going and getting 
the data.  Using XSLT on the client side would, presumably, be a 
better solution.  It wouldn't require any server time, would run in 
the context of the user (for password/pay sites) and would be as up 
to the minute as a reload.  The downside, perhaps, is that some sites 
seem to track how often you reloaded (newsblip?) and this would hurt. 

My ideal would be to have the IIS server "go get" the feed and use 
client side XSLT to allow to flexibility.  Other matters press for my 
attention, however.

-Bill Kearney