From ivorw-openguides@xemaps.com Tue Dec 13 14:39:43 2005
From: IvorW <ivorw-openguides@xemaps.com>
To: openguides-london@lists.openguides.org
Subject: RE: [OGL] RSS is a bit temperamental
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:28:23 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: openguides-london-bounces(a)openguides.org
> [mailto:openguides-london-bounces(a)openguides.org]On Behalf Of Andrew
> Black
> Sent: 13 December 2005 14:10
> To: Discussion of the Open Guide to London.
> Subject: [OGL] RSS is a bit temperamental
>=20
>=20
> The RSS facility on London openguides is great when it works but from=20
> time to time produces XML that Thunderbird doesnt like.     I havnt=20
> managed to pin down what is upsetting it but there something wrong on=20
> Fri 9 /12 ( We got the "Sites about London" and "Little Venice" but=20
> nothing latter that day).
>=20

The next entry after "Little Venice" is for "Shish, NW2 4NH".
The XML looks fine to me, and I notice that the comma has veen correctly esca=
ped in the URLs. Maybe Thunderbird doesn't like escaped commas.

- <item rdf:about=3D"http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?id=3DShish%2C_NW2=
_4NH;version=3D3">
  <title>Shish, NW2 4NH</title>=20
  <link>http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?id=3DShish%2C_NW2_4NH;version=
=3D3</link>=20
  <description>[JohnGH]</description>=20
  <dc:date>2005-12-09T19:59:40+00:00</dc:date>=20
  <dc:contributor>JohnGH</dc:contributor>=20
  <modwiki:status>updated</modwiki:status>=20
  <modwiki:importance>major</modwiki:importance>=20
  <modwiki:diff />=20
  <modwiki:version>3</modwiki:version>=20
  <modwiki:history />=20
  <rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource=3D"http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?id=3DS=
hish%2C_NW2_4NH;format=3Drdf" />=20
  </item>

> What I am inclined to do is run a cron job that gets a=20
> snapshot of the=20
> RSS every hour - I suspect there is the odd item that is generating=20
> "unusual" XML but once that one has wrapped of the bottom it starts=20
> working again.

Sounds like what I had running for the og_mirror script.

> BTW - does the RSS always give the the last 15 items. or the=20
> items in a=20
> particular time period.

Yes, these are the two options at present. You can also get RSS feeds of the =
last x changes for a contributor, and all nodes in a category or locale.


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