Re: [syndication] Scraper code?

["S. Mike Dierken" <mdierken@hotmail.com>]

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From: "Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>

>
> Well, it'd certainly be great to have some sort of local 'dispatcher'
handling
> all incoming RDF but that's not terribly likely in the near future.  So
using
> application/rss+xml does at least avoid stepping on the toes of anything
that
> might ever emerge for handling RDF in a dispatched manner.  As many folks,
I'm
> not holding my breath there...
>
> It'd be a lot less silly to have one that worked specifically for RSS.
Then we
> could concentrate on getting people to serve up their RSS with that
specific
> content type.  Given that RSS is probably the single most widely
distributed
> form of XML and RDF it's probably best to make use of it's own content
type.
>
> A generic dispatcher would be interesting.  The complexity required of if,
> however, would be quite daunting.
What did you have in mind for a generic dispatcher? Browsers already do
generic dispatching - so I assume you mean something else.
What parts would be daunting? What issues are complex?
If you provide a list of features, I can probably build a simple app pretty
quickly. It is fairly easy on Windows for a client aggregator to register to
handle a particular Content-Type.