Comments on: Culling You RSS Feeds

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:34:00 +0000

Bob -

It's not the programmers junping in with their size 9's, it's the clowns jumping in with their size 29's.

By: Bob Phillips

Bob Phillips — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:22:00 +0000

I thought the idea of XML was to be a universal transport protocol. You could receive an XML file, and with the right XLST you could render it in a browser, Excel, Word or whatever application that you want. That was how I thought it would go when I first came across it. That would have been good, the reality just seems pointless to me (and guess who has jumped in with their size 9s on this bandwagon).

By: Ross

Ross — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:03:00 +0000

sorry missed ), off last post!
Ross

By: Ross

Ross — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:02:00 +0000

>>XML can be! It's not a format meant to be seen by humans and, worse, it's profoundly over-used

I thought that was exactly what it was meant for - well at least be self descriptive!

By: Debra Dalgleish

Debra Dalgleish — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:34:00 +0000

Dick, I had Google Reader open in Firefox when testing the first time. I tried the code with Google Reader open in IE8 but got the same error there. When I put the URL in the address bar in either browser, the XML shows up.

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:23:00 +0000

Good question aivars – you can’t, but I’m working on it. Until I can figure out how to fix it, the best way to browse the archives is by clicking on the DDoE Archives link in the sidebar and browsing the post titles. It doesn’t limit by category, but the post titles should fairly descriptive so that you can see what looks interesting. Sorry for the broken navigation and thanks for reading.

By: aivars

aivars — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:06:00 +0000

Sorry for off-topic but please Dick, how can you you browse all posts in Categories archive on your web-page? You select a category from list box, it displays first posts and then if you hit previous entries, you are somewhere else, but not in older posts of the same category.

aivars

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:39:00 +0000

Debra: It’s probably because you don’t have Internet Explorer logged into to Google Reader. If it doesn’t see that cookie, it will return a 404, which doesn’t have a list node.

By: Mike Woodhouse

Mike Woodhouse — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:05:00 +0000

+1 on how much fun XML can be! It’s not a format meant to be seen by humans and, worse, it’s profoundly over-used. I presume it’s the “if the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” principle. Except everyone has more tools than that most of the time, if they weren’t too lazy or ill-informed to look. It’s one of the reasons I liked that “HappyMapper” library so much: it let me state declaratively what I wanted from the XML and then got on and did it for me. I wonder if something like that could work for VBA – perhaps code generation could do it. Tempting – one more half-finished project couldn’t hurt, surely?

By: Debra Dalgleish

Debra Dalgleish — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:49:00 +0000

Thanks Dick, and lamenting sounds much more professional than whining. I downloaded your sample file, but it doesn't set xmlListNode, so it stalls on the next line.

I barely know how to spell XML, so have no idea how to fix it.

Maybe I'll just go low tech, like John. Sounds more relaxing.