Re: [gDesklets] RSS Control

[Lauri Kainulainen <lauri sokkelo net>]

Hi Karel,

Karel Vervaeke wrote:
> Hi.  If this list is only meants for gdesklet development and not for 
> Controls / Display, please point me the right way.

This is the place for all gD related discussion.

> Google Calendar provides atom feeds for your calendars - the url's look 
> like this
> http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/[email gmail com]/private-[hexstring]/basic
>
> I tried to use the RSS Control (v0.5) for reading the atom feeds but I 
> had to make some changes to make it work.  The changes look like this:
>
> 59a60
>  >              
> 75c76
> <               self.data = escape(self.data + data.strip()).encode('utf-8')
> ---
>  >               self.data = escape(self.data + data.strip()).encode()
> 88c89
> <               elif name == "item" or name=="entry":
> ---
>  >               elif name == "item":
>
>
> There are numerous other improvements that can be made to the parser.
> (On a sidenote, I'm looking for a control that will parse ICS files 
> because the Google Calendar feeds are not exactly what I need).

I'm more than happy to submit your improvements to the RSS-control. 
Could you send me a patch, or better yet, the improved 
RSS-control-package and I'll submit it to the site. You can just send it 
as an email attachment.


Br,
Lauri
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