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Re: RSS output format (was: Re: Lugnet for beginners)
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lugnet.admin.general
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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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| (...) 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) (...) (27 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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