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Sunday, July 25, 2004 - Blog entry by lkessler - 25 Jul 2004
... a few things that I'm sure will be added over time, such as dragging and dropping the XML icon from a webpage to add a feed.
I always like to browse the code of Delphi Open Source programs for ideas and techniques that I might be able to apply to Behold. I knew, however, that FeedReader would be using Delphi 7 or later, since that was when
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Sunday, July 18, 2004 - Blog entry by lkessler - 18 Jul 2004
Last couple of RSS things required. First, add the XML icon onto the top of this blog page and link it to the .xml file. That's what's used to identify a newsfeed to people with news aggregator programs such as SharpReader.
I've even picked an image to go with my RSS file. This image is often displayed ...
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Thursday, July 15, 2004 - Blog entry by lkessler - 15 Jul 2004
After a fair bit of studying of RSS, I see that the basic XML used for RSS is relatively simple (no pun intended). My best bet is to write a program to scrape my own Blog the way I want to, and create an xml file in RSS format. I'll pick RSS 0.91 since its specs are really all I need. ... After an hour or so, I ...
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Saturday, June 19, 2004 - Blog entry by lkessler - 19 Jun 2004
... of switching. The alternative is to find a "scraper" tool, to convert my Html into XML in either RSS or Atom format. Well, all the scraper tools are either online tools or written in some scripting language (like PHP) which requires your own server to run on. The format is not too difficult. I could write my own one, but that would just deflect me away from my real goal ...
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Thursday, June 17, 2004 - Blog entry by lkessler - 17 Jun 2004
... for a few reasons. Since then, I have had a few inquiries as to whether I supply an XML feed. This is something new I really didn't know about. I downloaded the free SharpReader (which Dick recommended) so that I can experiment with blog feeds and blog readers. Blog feeds appear to be the newfangled method of reading online content, to add to the plethoria of ways ...
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Thursday, February 20, 2003 - Blog entry by lkessler - 20 Feb 2003
... should be able to support all flavors of GEDCOM, including GEDCOM 6.0 and the various XML versions. Why do it? Mainly so that the extra power will be there to record easily what you want and be able to change from format to format without any data loss. This is in the plans.
A Borland developer's survey I filled out alerted me to a Programming Methodology known as: ...
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Monday, February 10, 2003 - Blog entry by lkessler - 10 Feb 2003
... entity in GEDCOM that is a necessity. I agreed and pointed out that the GEDCOM XML Version 6 proposed by LDS seems to fix this problem. But then I got to vent myself that they didn't go far enough and also set up "Places" as a separate entity, and Tom agreed. There. Now I feel better, too.
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Friday, November 8, 2002 - Blog entry by lkessler - 8 Nov 2002
... to get on to their Discussion Forum, but this gave an error of its own:
Error!!!
XML Error loading ''
A string literal was expected, but no opening quote character was found.
at line 26, character 26
Hmmm. Two strikes against them already. We'll lets just ftp the stuff over to my website. Alas - the third strike: For some strange reason, it makes me log in twice ...
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