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Re: RSS output format (was: Re: Lugnet for beginners)
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Thu, 2 Mar 2000 05:00:46 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
[...]
What I've used is, in hindsight, clearly the wrong source format to use for
something so highly structured and parallel as the Spotlight items, but OTOH
the Spotlight feature just sort of sprang into existance in a quick and ad-hoc
sort of way because it was so darn trivially easy to create it that way.
[...]

In other words, back when the Spotlight pages were begun, it was very easy
to justify trying that out, because it literally was zero programming to
implement it -- it's just one particular application of the plaintext markup
format I was tinkering with last fall.  Now that the Spotlight has shown[1]
itself to be useful, it's worth doing special things to improve the feature.

--Todd

[1] Wow, was it really 6 months ago today that it started?  Wow, time flies.
184 days of Spotlight -- 1,082 entries!



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  Re: RSS output format (was: Re: Lugnet for beginners)
 
(...) Taking this RSS/Channels thing a step further, here's a related possibility which applies the RSS suggestion to a more general problem domain: First, I'd like to scrap the current Spotlight (after a one-time data conversion to a new format, (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  RSS output format (was: Re: Lugnet for beginners)
 
(...) If the Spotlight data were in an easy-to-munge format, it would be pretty straightforward, ya, but it actually grew up out of a plaintext format. Here's an example of today's page in its raw form that I edit in a browser window edit box: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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