Re: importing entries

On Apr 7, 2005 1:19 AM, Wari Wahab <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I tested this on both Ted's and my sites' main RSS files, and it
> > worked like a charm. It seems, in looking over some RSS from others,
> > that some feeds use the 'content:encoded' tag, while others use
> > 'description'. I test for a content tag (which is a little wonky in
> > cElementTree, so there's room for improvement in that test), and if
> > it's there, use that. If not, I use the description.
> 
> These parsing issues are usually taken care of by the feedparser by
> Mark Pilgrim. It even does so without using an unforgiving XML parser.
> 
> > Also, how do you want to do file naming? I sanitize the title and use
> > the first 200 characters of it, but that's suboptimal.
> 
> There's also date/time that wasn't imported, easily solvable though.
> What about comment feeds support? These are things that first time
> users will ask for.

Oh, about the comment feed support - can somebody point me at a couple
of comment feeds? They should be easy enough to create too, but I
don't subscribe to any.

Peace
Bill Mill
bill.mill at gmail.com


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