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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Another RSS Hack
Feed Title: Cincom Smalltalk Blog - Smalltalk with Rants
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Feed Description: James Robertson comments on Cincom Smalltalk, the Smalltalk development community, and IT trends and issues in general.
Internally, some of the non-Smalltalk groups at Cincom are using SharePoint (we use Wikis in the ST group). SharePoint seems like a natural for exporting RSS, and there's a free part for doing just that. There's a problem though - it generates odd RSS. It defines a namespace like this:
xmlns:rss="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
That namespace is the default namespace for the document, and none of the elements are in that namespace - which makes them invisible to BottomFeeder, which sees feeds from that tool as RSS 2.0. Never fear though - I added a handler specifically for SharePoint that expects this slight deviation and handles it. So if you use SharePoint, you can export RSS and have BottomFeeder pick up the results. There are a few commercial (i.e., paid) solutions for this as well; I have no idea what kind of RSS they pump out.
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