RSS feeds from developerWorks:Lotus forums
December 20 2005
IBM developerWorks:Lotus has added RSS feeds for the public discussion forums:
Great additional way to access these forums, in addition to browser and Notes client access. Cool!Post a Comment
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vowe http://vowe.net | 12/20/2005 8:12:16 PM
Maybe somebody can make the < description > longer than 124 characters.
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vowe http://vowe.net | 12/20/2005 8:12:50 PM
Or are they being sent as SMS ? :-)
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Chris Linfoot http://chris-linfoot.net | 12/21/2005 2:48:46 AM
Somebody read my mind. I was just thinking last night that I don't post to dW as often as I used to because it is simply too much trouble to go there, log in, click "my forum interests" and review each interest on the off chance that someone has raised a topic with which I can help (I think one of the people I helped referred to this practice as "trolling the forum, looking for SMTP postings"). In fact I was about to post to dW asking if/when we could have RSS and here in my RSS reader this morning I see you announcing it. Spooky.
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Alan Bell http://www.dominux.co.uk | 12/21/2005 7:44:56 AM
I think I can feel a Konfabulator widget coming on . . . the question is whether to use the RSS feed which is flat or use the XML directly from the view to get a threaded display. { Link }
or maybe both.
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Chris Whisonant http://cwhisonant.blogspot.com | 12/21/2005 8:11:35 AM
@4 - I was just thinking the other day that it would be great to have feeds for the forums! Lotus must be doing some type of wiretapping on us as we are using Notes. lol
But back to the feeds - I then started wondering how much more productive it would make me...
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Alan Bell http://www.dominux.co.uk | 12/21/2005 4:50:35 PM
Lots of XML Exploiting goodness
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Axel | 12/22/2005 2:09:00 PM
The feed could be made more usefull. I am not finished, but it should be possible to use simple Java1.4 compatible rss-library like rome (from java.net) in notes7 agent and fire from time to time a scheduled download request.
The following informations are missing:
- content only first 124 characters. Of course, one can use the uri of the feed to download and parse the content. Its nasty extra-work, but looks very possible.
- the author of the post does not appear in the feed.
- a date is missing.
- reference information to parent posting is missing for answer-postings.
For all this information there are elements in rss-2.0 (its rss-2.0 feed)
It took me 30 minutes to download rome, set up eclipse project which downloads the entries and converts them to JavaBeans, which can be used to create notes-documents. So its easy.
A 2nd version of the feed providing the information mentioned would be highly apreciated.
It's about time:-)
seriously though, this is awesome! Now we just need to aggregate the R4/5 and ND 6/t feeds into one (hint, hint:-))