I know there is a general distaste for 3rd party libraries, but is there any interest in building on the work of an exisiting RSS/Atom parser? For example: http://simplepie.org The problem that I've seen with most GPL'd parsers is that they are classes, which is certainly not the "drupal way." Any recommendations? Any thoughts? Or should we just keep the homebrew solution? -M On 7/8/06, Earl Miles <merlin@logrus.com> wrote:
Mark Fredrickson wrote:
Let's ignore the front-end issue for now. Can we get a feed.inc? For starters it can just pull out the feed parsing from aggegrator - but it would be nice if it could also provide some feed generation features. eg. create_feed(array($node1, $node2, $node3));
I'll take a crack at it if people think it is worthwhile.
Personally, I do think it's worthwhile; this wouldn't *remove* aggregator from core (and in fact, I'd probably actually keep aggregator, just with most of it moved to feed.inc and then aggregator.module kept as a simple implementation of it) allowing contrib modules to utilize feed.inc and add fancy bells and whistles.