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Tony

I want to add information from the Sydney Morning Herald to my web site. ie. The weather for a few
local towns, a ticker with breaking news, the Dilbert of the day if that is legal, etc

Is there a respository for these sorts of facilities somewhere?

When I do INSERT, WEB COMPONENT I see the MSNBC offerings but they are not good enough - they are
not celcius for temperature, it is miles instead of kilometres, etc, etc.

Any assistance appreciated.

Tony
www.StuartTown.org.au
 
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Rob Schneider

Tony said:
I want to add information from the Sydney Morning Herald to my web site. ie. The weather for a few
local towns, a ticker with breaking news, the Dilbert of the day if that is legal, etc

Is there a respository for these sorts of facilities somewhere?

When I do INSERT, WEB COMPONENT I see the MSNBC offerings but they are not good enough - they are
not celcius for temperature, it is miles instead of kilometres, etc, etc.

Any assistance appreciated.

Tony
www.StuartTown.org.au
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That's something that the Sydney Morning Hearald would probably not
approve of. They probably do not want their material republished on
someone else's web site, and therefore you may not find anything.

If they do approve it, they may well provide instructions somewhere on
their web site about how to go about doing it. For example, they mave
have an RSS feed (which is a standard for content-syndication based on
XML)or something. To use RSS would need some sort of FrontPage RSS
module which I'm not aware exists. Perhaps others on thsi forum can chip
in.

I think the sites which use RSS are typically not based on using
FrontPage as the development tool, and instead are using CGI programs
written in Perl, Python, or others using standard modules for RSS and
content syndication. You can add this sort of stuff into your FrontPage
web, but not without some programming/setup which is independent of
FrontPage.
 
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Tony

Hi Rob,

I was hoping that because MSNBC offer this sort of thing to Frontpage, that others would as well -
it is all advertising at the end of the day. You might be right though - I hadn't considered that.

Where can I find out more on RSS? I hear about it but cannot even find out what it stands for!

Cheers mate.

Tony



Tony said:
I want to add information from the Sydney Morning Herald to my web site. ie. The weather for a few
local towns, a ticker with breaking news, the Dilbert of the day if that is legal, etc

Is there a respository for these sorts of facilities somewhere?

When I do INSERT, WEB COMPONENT I see the MSNBC offerings but they are not good enough - they are
not celcius for temperature, it is miles instead of kilometres, etc, etc.

Any assistance appreciated.

Tony
www.StuartTown.org.au
Click to expand...

That's something that the Sydney Morning Hearald would probably not
approve of. They probably do not want their material republished on
someone else's web site, and therefore you may not find anything.

If they do approve it, they may well provide instructions somewhere on
their web site about how to go about doing it. For example, they mave
have an RSS feed (which is a standard for content-syndication based on
XML)or something. To use RSS would need some sort of FrontPage RSS
module which I'm not aware exists. Perhaps others on thsi forum can chip
in.

I think the sites which use RSS are typically not based on using
FrontPage as the development tool, and instead are using CGI programs
written in Perl, Python, or others using standard modules for RSS and
content syndication. You can add this sort of stuff into your FrontPage
web, but not without some programming/setup which is independent of
FrontPage.
 
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Cheryl D. Wise

Only if you want to hear from the Herald's attorneys. That's a copyright
violation unless you explicitly have their permission.

As far as RSS feeds go you'll need to find out what type of scripting your
host supports and find a parser in that language and put it on your page.
There are RSS parsers available for asp and php which should cover you
bases. As far as I know there isn't an RSS plug-in for FP but maybe someone
else knows of one.
 
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Rob Schneider

Cheryl said:
Only if you want to hear from the Herald's attorneys. That's a copyright
violation unless you explicitly have their permission.

As far as RSS feeds go you'll need to find out what type of scripting your
host supports and find a parser in that language and put it on your page.
There are RSS parsers available for asp and php which should cover you
bases. As far as I know there isn't an RSS plug-in for FP but maybe someone
else knows of one.
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I don't know of any RSS plug-in's for FP, but they either already exist
or it's invitable they will.

RSS was on my mind as I've been reading/hearing about it a lot for about
a year now. Part of the "blogger" technology.

I also just finishing speed-reading Ben Hammersley's book "Content
Syndication with RSS" by O'Reilly
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/consynrss/. They have published Chapter 4
of that book on there. That's one of the most important chapters whichs
describes a lot of it. Maybe a bit more heavy than you want, but it's
all there.

From that I can offer a few places on the web for you to read. I'm not
an expert. Just reading/watching:

- O'Reilly Network http://www.oreillynet.com/ periodically has articles.
YOu can see examples of RSS feed buttons there.

- specs and other info available at http://backend.userland.com

- back of Hammersley's book has a lot of web links for specs, mailing
lists, and desktop readers.
 
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