Re: [gDesklets] RSS Control

[karel vervaeke telenet be (Karel Vervaeke)]

Hey there.  Attached you will find both the improved RSS control
and the patch file.

The new version was tested with http://www.mozbrowser.nl/atom/feed using
RSSboy 0.3.

I was unsure about the utf8 bit, so I left that out.

TTFN,
Karel

As for the Google Calendar feeds

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:23:35AM +0300, Lauri Kainulainen wrote:
> Hi Karel,
> 
> Karel Vervaeke wrote:
> > Hi.  If this list is only meants for gdesklet development and not for 
> > Controls / Display, please point me the right way.
> 
> This is the place for all gD related discussion.
> 
> > Google Calendar provides atom feeds for your calendars - the url's look 
> > like this
> > http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/[email gmail com]/private-[hexstring]/basic
> > 
> > I tried to use the RSS Control (v0.5) for reading the atom feeds but I 
> > had to make some changes to make it work.  The changes look like this:
> > 
> > 59a60
> >  >              
> > 75c76
> > <               self.data = escape(self.data + data.strip()).encode('utf-8')
> > ---
> >  >               self.data = escape(self.data + data.strip()).encode()
> > 88c89
> > <               elif name == "item" or name=="entry":
> > ---
> >  >               elif name == "item":
> > 
> > 
> > There are numerous other improvements that can be made to the parser.
> > (On a sidenote, I'm looking for a control that will parse ICS files 
> > because the Google Calendar feeds are not exactly what I need).
> 
> I'm more than happy to submit your improvements to the RSS-control. 
> Could you send me a patch, or better yet, the improved 
> RSS-control-package and I'll submit it to the site. You can just send it 
> as an email attachment.
> 
> 
> Br,
> Lauri
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