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RSS reader directory
RSS Feed Reader / News Aggregators Directory :: hebig.org/blog
It is suprising to see how many different, yet similar looking Windows feed readers exist – has become writing a .NET feed reader the modern hello world application?
I think the reason for all those .NET feed readers is that one of the first examples to appear in the .NET/C# documentation shows how to set-up a 3-pane, Outlook-style windows application.
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RSS Reader cascade
Scripting News mentions a review by Don Box of an RSS reader called Harvester, but the guy who did Harvester is already pointing at SharpReader. Which looks a bit slicker than Syndirella. And I just downloaded Awasu this weekend…
Cross-Browser Rich Text Editor by Kevin Roth, works in Mozilla 1.3 and Internet Explorer.
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Parsing HTML with Perl
The Perl Journal has a good tutorial to Parsing HTML with HTML::PARSER, by Ken MacFarlane.
Worth noting that this is already sub-classed (and re-used) by lots of other modules in CPAN. Although I think the common approach is either to (a) use RegExps to parse what you need or (b) use some black-box tool to convert the HTML to well-formed XML, and parse that.
The HTML::Tree objects (tree builder and tree node classes) are another interface to the HTML::Parser, as is HTML::TokeParser. I think I’ll stick with hacking on the plain parser for now. Bah. It doesn’t work – some obscure bug when calling the “parse” method, which doesn’t appear in the source – compiled code, perhaps? In any case, I’m using RegExps….