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 September 15, 2002
  9:02:40 AM  

RSS Feeds: Syndic8   NewsIsFree   Meerkat    RSS Info   myRSS  
RSS Info: RSS Tools

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  6:55:02 AM  

Experiments with RSSDistiller

Links:  RssDistiller How To    customizing RssDistiller 

September 14, 2002: Initial experiments, using Harrow Technology Report as a source. Comments:

  • one level of items is not enough - need to have at least 2, conditionally
  • need to strip some HTML formatting (keep basic <H>, <B>, <I> but not Word markup)
  • need to drop some items automatically (Your Feedback is Important)
  • need to combine onChange and filter scripts
  • want to add DHTML hide/show script to limit initially visible length of posts

 

-----Original Message-----
From: ehartwell@exoware.com [
mailto:ehartwell@exoware.com]
Sent: September 15, 2002 7:04 AM
To:
paolo@evectors.it
Subject: Radio UserLand: Mail from Eric Hartwell

Eric Hartwell sent this email to you through the Radio UserLand community server, re this page - RssDistillerHowTo.

I've been experimenting with RSSDistiller, and I'm ready to create custom filters.

I followed "helpcustom" to add a custom distiller to RSSDistillerDataFile.Distillers, and it shows up in the list of filterd on the Edit Feed page.

Problem: the "extract" scripts in RssDistillerSuite.Distillers are compiled code, so I can't read them. Where's the script source?


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