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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Actually, why don't I just post here, because there's a good chance that I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't really use RSS feeds outside of FF's live bookmarks (I don't use any other aggregators, etc.), so I'm not really sure what Skaarjj is referring to when he says "view feeds by categories." The way I see it, you would only be able to view feeds by category if a category system was specified in the first place, right? The Asylum feed does not appear to have any such system. What I was originally thinking of for the Asylum is something like this: [code]<item rdf:about="http://www.ozoneasylum.com/25516"> <title>Mad Scientists' Laboratory \| Suggestion for Asylum RSS feed</title> <link>http://www.ozoneasylum.com/25516</link> <dc:date>2005-04-17T06:29:39-07:00</dc:date> </item>[/code] The only difference between this and what we have now is the "Mad Scientists' Laboratory \| " that I added to the title tag. Since the feed is generated dynamically, I'm guessing that it shouldn't be too hard to include the forum name in the generation process. Not knowing how it works, though, I can't be sure. The above syntax is just one idea. Alternatively, we could have the forum name in parentheses after the thread title: "Suggestion for the Asylum RSS feed (Mad Scientists' Laboratory)." If this tends to make title tags too long, we could have abbreviations: "Suggestions for the Asylum RSS feed (MSL)." This was my original idea. Nothing fancy, just a little indication of which forum each thread belonged to. I don't know anything about categories or other RSS architectural schemes, so if anyone knows of a better or more efficient way to do this, I'd be interested in hearing about it. ___________________________ Suho: [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/4837]Cell 270[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5689]Sig Rotator[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/22173]the Fellowship of Sup[/url] \| "Hooray for linguistic idiots and yak milk!" [small](Edited by [internallink=2031]Suho1004[/internallink] on 04-18-2005 06:40)[/small] Loading...
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