I spent part of the afternoon (hey, it was raining) working through Dave Babbit and Dave Winer’s implementation of the Radio Driver for reading the XML feed published by Macromedia, and built one of my own. I learned quite a bit about how you handle XML tables in Frontier.
This aggregator reads the extended XML format of my Weblog. You get the full markup of the post, as well as the date stamp and title.
Frontier/Radio users know the drill, save the page, load the object, and subscribe.
There are a few modifications I’d like to make:
- Add metadata to weblog XML feed that identifies the author, weblog name, copyright.
- Add versioning to the feed and the driver. The driver should look at the version attribute of the feed and advise the user if they need to upgrade the driver.
- Sign the posts, just in case.
