Wednesday, August 21, 2002

Still playing with the idea of a better way to perform granular searches for web logs. Here's what I have so far: XMLRpc Servlet to process requests for adding/updating web log entries to a small db. Store and index entries for keyword and title search. Web or XML-interface to perform the search ( TO DO ) The actual weblog entries sent to the XMLRpc Servlet come from an XML file on the users machine. The XML ( or OPML ) file specify the rss url, title, description, and keywords. - But why not just use the info. from the existing rss.xml? - Looking around I realized that in most cases thatinfo. would not be valuable for searching ( it didn't really describe helpful information for searching ). So what I'd like to try first is just create a little xml-rpc script ran by the scheduler in Radio and point to a opml file. When the scheduler runs it'll send the search info to the XML-RPC Servlet that'll store and index it. Nothing really exciting yet . 4:36:45 PM