Category: Software and Programming

In a previous entry, I posted two tiny scripts for reading out a list of RSS subscriptions in an OPML file. One used regexps, and the other used the handy XML::Simple module.

Now, they both sort-of work OK, until they run into an OPML file that’s actually an outline (like the ones produced by SharpReader), where the XML::Simple script runs into a problem (the RegExp script, ironically, will probably print things OK, because it ignores the nesting and just parses whatever lines it sees).

So I did a few improvements, and here’s the result (available in plain text Perl, or SciTe syntax-highlighted HTML)

Magpie RSS is another RSS parser written in PHP.

I’m fiddling around with Onyx RSS as a possible replacement for what I’m using in feed (hmm, that page needs updating too…).

Too bad no one has written a proper OPML parser in PHP I can steal. All the ones I’ve found so far are pretty ad-hoc tools.

An Excellent Hebrew article about RSS, with slight errors (RSS 1.0 isn’t a W3C recommended standard; RDF, which it is an application of, is).