Re: [syndication] using rss2html, want to limit # of headlines pulled

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

The downsize of which is that using this in a browser is going to pull that RSS
file every time the page is loaded.

Grabbing an RSS file 'periodically' and using that local file to generate HTML
(or js) is a lot less traffic on the server that holds teh RSS file.  Most don't
change with the frequency that immediate, constant, page reloads would require.

There are some feeds, like newsblip, that actually get irritated when you hit
them too often.  They start handing back a "you're requesting too often" RSS
error file instead of actual content.

So take this into account when you start pulling RSS files...

-Bill Kearney

----- Original Message -----

> you might be interested in something like rss2js, which feeds rss data into
> javascript data structures on a web page.  you then can format the output
> using javascript on the page itself.
>
> i'll be posting the source to this on my weblog mynakada.weblogs.com in the
> next couple of days.