[sword-devel] Remote Repositories

[Greg Hellings]

Troy said he would provide a way to get the access from the engine.

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.

--Greg
On Dec 28, 2010 11:45 PM, "Jonathan Morgan" <jonmmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greg,
>
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com
>wrote:
>
>> Why does the News.txt need to have a format we talk about? There are
>> already perfectly good definitions for news lists and feeds already
around.
>> See RSS, Atom and related technologies.
>>
>
> Because I'm not convinced that every frontend wants to have to implement
> parsing and display of RSS, Atom or related technologies. Having one chunk
> of formatted text to show might not be the best in the world, but at least
> it's relatively simple to do.
>
> Jon
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