[development] Aggregator to nodes

blogdiva at culturekitchen.com blogdiva at culturekitchen.com
Thu Oct 5 15:14:09 UTC 2006


Two quick questions: is this replacing Aggregator2? Does it work in 4.7?


On  05.Oct.2006, at 10:30, Boris Mann wrote:

> On 10/5/06, inkfree press <inkfree at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Boris Mann" wrote:
>>
>> > Please see https://svn.bryght.com/dev/wiki/DrupalFeedParsing for  
>> a summary.
>> >
>> > budda's feedparser has the cleanest code and looks like a good  
>> path forward.
>> > However, I would like to see the "feed enabling" approach that  
>> David Ayre took
>> > under our direction with the "feed_node" module -- see
>> > https://svn.bryght.com/dev/browser/feed_node
>
> Works for me, and hasn't been down to my knowledge.
>
>>
>> > The other big thing is the ability to take different actions  
>> based on the
>> > namespace. For example, examining the feed, seeing it has GeoRSS  
>> extensions,
>> > and location-enabling nodes that are based on it.
>>
>> This sounds good.  I wonder, however, whether these kinds of  
>> features should
>> not be handed off to one of the "trigger-based" modules, like  
>> Actions or
>> Workflow.
>
> Nope. This is based directly on XML namespaces....the namespaces are
> the triggers. It's a similar concept to Actions, but works
> differently. Files are similar...different actions depending on MIME
> type.
>
> Menu callbacks and hooks are essentially "triggers".
>
>
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