Posted by Jim Higson on 11/06/58 11:54

Andy Dingley wrote:

>> Can someone point me to a (concise) site/book/whatever that explains
>> how the RSS-to-Javascript thing works (or some other equivalent method)
>
> - Take RSS from outside
> - Load the RSS as XML (tricky!)

Why tricky?

In PHP there is a built-in XML DOM parser that isn't too difficult to use.
Then you could output HTML from a bunch of PHP loops and things.
Presumably, other scripting languages have similar abilities.

You could also call something like xerces to be an XSLT. It's only a system
call to call it at the command line. You have to be careful security-wise
with this, but the execution isn't difficult.

Just curious, but why is this tricky to do?

--
Jim

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