Tech Notes

  Monday, August 12, 2002

Hello, Stapler 2.2.1.

Stapler 2.2.1 is out:

• Feed descriptions are correctly written to disk. I'm not sure how I let them not be.
• Feeds with no items no longer cause Stapler to write badly formed XML. I knew this was happening on and off but never connected it to having no items to write.
• Added radioComments scanner to provide a feed informing you of new comments to your Radio weblog. No example feed, but the scanner doesn't take any options (it reads everything from Radio's settings) so I'm not sure how it could be easier to set up.
• The blogHeadlines scanner ignores titles of "Untitled," abbreviating the item content instead. This is mainly for me, since I have untitled posts automatically given a title of "Untitled."
• The beforeAndAfter scanner has an "Include Before and After strings" option, and scanner options shown in textareas are now properly escaped. I'm scanning a couple actual sites with beforeAndAfter now, so of course, fixes.
• Using the "Subscribe" button only writes the feed to disk if the file didn't already exist.
• Added StaplerSuite.tools.newItem (feed) script for use by scanner authors. I was tired of having to look up and copy the same code over and over to do that, so, refactoring. Yay.

In related news, eVectors RssDistiller is 1.0 now. There's probably a 2.5:1 ratio between Stapler's and RssDistiller's version numbers, or something.

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