Greg,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Greg Hellings <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.hellings@gmail.com">greg.hellings@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<p>Troy said he would provide a way to get the access from the engine.</p>
<p>RSS is simply XML. Troy has told us the engine has Xml processing power (I don't know how it would handle the use of CDATA sections common in RSS). Every front end I am aware of has access to XML libraries already outside of Sword.</p>
</blockquote><div><br>My point still stands. A chunk of text to display is simple (the hardest decision is to think where to put it). Pre-formatted text is slightly harder, but still fairly simple. RSS requires some form of processing, and some form of formatting. It also makes it reasonably likely that you will have to consider showing either small quantities of text or large quantities of text, with corresponding UI implications. It all seems a bit of overkill when what the user probably wants is just a description of what the repository is.<br>
<br>Jon<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<p>--Greg</p><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 28, 2010 11:45 PM, "Jonathan Morgan" <<a href="mailto:jonmmorgan@gmail.com" target="_blank">jonmmorgan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Greg,<br>> <br>> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Greg Hellings <<a href="mailto:greg.hellings@gmail.com" target="_blank">greg.hellings@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>
> <br>>> Why does the News.txt need to have a format we talk about? There are<br>>> already perfectly good definitions for news lists and feeds already around.<br>>> See RSS, Atom and related technologies.<br>
>><br>> <br>> Because I'm not convinced that every frontend wants to have to implement<br>> parsing and display of RSS, Atom or related technologies. Having one chunk<br>> of formatted text to show might not be the best in the world, but at least<br>
> it's relatively simple to do.<br>> <br>> Jon<br></div>
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