Rss syndication is a GO! (kinda)
Oh, dear lord.
I finally got my RSS feed working, for the most part. It took me better part of 6 hours to do it, but I suppose it is worth it - I am not naive enough to think that anyone will ever syndicsate my ramblings, but the XML output is quite useful for on-site things, like title-based lists and such.
It took 6 hours because the original code for this site, although it has now been hacked into something completely different, called for output in the RSS 0.91 specification, which is ancient. Well, I spiced it up a tad. Within that 6 hours of coding, I realized that I had a relatively serious issue with dating posts that carries over from a decision I made at the outset; I then did what any other novice might do -- I kludged the hell out of it. I also spent a good portion of that time (sort-of) solvign one of my pet-peeves -- rss feeds that are not customizable by number of items on the server end. I have yet ot pound out the code for the form to allow this customization, but as you can see, the count variable (currently in the URL) does the work.
Minus some semi-crucial formatting details, here it is.
Don't let's all rush to syndicate me, people. ;)
Update Monday, 6/20/2005
I have since moved all of my feed generator scripting and associated source files to either dev.hinkybox.com or integrated them into the newest version of Wheatblog Thanks for visiting.
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