RSS - XML

[Mike]

Does a simple IE plugin exist that will allow one to read RSS/XML material? I
do not want to do blog or newsgroup subscriptions, just read the posts on the
web pages.

For example, rather than seeing

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <D:multistatus xmlns="DAV:">
- <D:response>
<D:href>/webct/webdav/192.168.208.84-1055607137419-

or

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
- <rdf:RDF xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:wiki="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/wiki/">
- <channel rdf:about="http://wiki.fastmail.fm/wiki/index.php/RecentChanges">
<title>FastMailWiki</title>
<link>http://wiki.fastmail.fm/wiki/index.php/RecentChanges</link>
<description>RecentChanges</description>
<dc:date>2005-01-08T17:14:05+00:00</dc:date>
- <items>


on the page, I would like to see the result rather than the code.

Shouldn't IE have that built in so that you can see the result rather than the
code?

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

....

I would like to see the result rather than the code.

Try renaming the file from *.xml to *.htm first?

Shouldn't IE have that built in so that you can see the result rather than the
code?

I think it would be nice. In the opposite direction it would also provide
a simple way of testing HTML for XHTML compliance
--getting a structured View Source tool for free.

 

[Mike]

...

Try renaming the file from *.xml to *.htm first?

Do not have direct access to the file since it is not on my server. Do not
want to download the entire site just to see the information.

I think it would be nice. In the opposite direction it would also provide
a simple way of testing HTML for XHTML compliance
--getting a structured View Source tool for free.

I am beginning to think that RSS/XML is just another way to try to pump more
advertisements on our desktop in a never ending stream. That is one of the
reasons that I am still avoiding installing a RSS reader to sit around on my
system sucking in feeds. Reading newsgroups with something like slrn gets
enough garbage as it is.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Do not have direct access to the file since it is not on my server.

I actually was thinking of using the copy in the TIF (assuming the file
was cached). It would be really easy if they let us use View Source
but that always seems to be inhibited for some reason. (E.g. just do
a File, Save As... *.htm and then open that.)

However, if it's cached you should be able to see it by opening the
TIF viewer (Alt-T,O,Alt-S,V) and making sure that the view is Details,
sorted by Last Accessed (Alt-V,D Alt-V,I,Last Accessed)
Then you could drag it to a Notepad window and do the same thing
with that source view.

BTW I suspect that once you get the source you may find you have
other tools which would let you view it in various ways.
E.g. many MS developer's products are now XML aware.

FWIW I just picked an XML file out of my TIF and dragged it to Notepad
as I suggested, then did Ctrl-a,Ctrl-c to copy the whole source file
to Clipboard, then pasted that into an OE HTML source tab and
switched to its Preview tab. It worked! <G> (I got to see all the data
values without any of the tags or formatting. It even ignored what I at first
thought should be some data but then realized it was in XML comments!)


HTH

Robert
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