Greg, I might not have done a good job explaining the purpose of this field. My intention is to provide the publisher with a way to communicate basic information to users who view their repository from any of our applications. This may be news, it may be a promotion, it may just be a "Thanks for visiting our repository" blurb. Just some way the publisher can communicate information to anyone who might be interested in a publisher's repository.
Hope this clears things up. Troy On 12/28/2010 10:50 PM, Greg Hellings wrote: > Troy said he would provide a way to get the access from the engine. > > RSS is simply XML. Troy has told us the engine has Xml processing power > (I don't know how it would handle the use of CDATA sections common in > RSS). Every front end I am aware of has access to XML libraries already > outside of Sword. > > --Greg > > On Dec 28, 2010 11:45 PM, "Jonathan Morgan" <jonmmor...@gmail.com > <mailto:jonmmor...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> Greg, >> >> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Greg Hellings > <greg.helli...@gmail.com <mailto:greg.helli...@gmail.com>>wrote: >> >>> Why does the News.txt need to have a format we talk about? There are >>> already perfectly good definitions for news lists and feeds already > around. >>> See RSS, Atom and related technologies. >>> >> >> Because I'm not convinced that every frontend wants to have to implement >> parsing and display of RSS, Atom or related technologies. Having one chunk >> of formatted text to show might not be the best in the world, but at least >> it's relatively simple to do. >> >> Jon > > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
