[thelist] Need an XML starting-point/how-to

[Nicole Parrot]

Here are a few links:
I was able to get the PHP parser working without too much effort. It all
depends how familiar you are with programming and PHP, I guess.

And to the group:
how does one submit an article here? I'm tempted to write a beginner level
starting point on RSS feeds. Not that I'm an expert, far from it. I'm still
a beginner myself, but it would be nice to document the first few steps to
getting an RSS feed going.

RSS specifications:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/files/specification.html

An introduction to RSS news feeds:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/w-rss.html?D49n2
(includes a parser in Perl)

RSSManip:  an ASP parser
http://www.tnl.net/how/asp/RSS/RSSmanip/

Parsing XML with PHP
http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/channels/wap/features/xmlcast_php.html

Nicole

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Haenel" <bill at ncpr.org>
To: "thelist" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 11:07 AM
Subject: [thelist] Need an XML starting-point/how-to


> Our radio station now has the option of grabbing news articles, etc. from
a
> couple of services that are providing the content via XML to stations like
> us.
>
> So, after avoiding it for quite a while, it is now obvious that to stay
> ahead of the game, I'll need to learn how to use XML to integrate their
> content with our our own. Where to begin?
>
> Like most of us, I have negative amounts of time available to start
> something new, so I'm looking for a couple of down-and-dirty,
boot-camp-type
> online sources that might help me to get started with XML. Where's the
best
> place to start?