Well this is my first go and getting something into CPAN and I'd like to
submit the following modules for consideration
POE::Component::RSSAggregator
RSS::Feed
RSS::Feed::Headline
This is how POE::Component::RSSAggregator works:
1. init the component with
a. an array of hashs that represent rss urls you want to watch
b. a callback to handle new headlines when they show appear
2. the states for the component are as followes
_start takes the hashes and create RSS::Feed objects with them
the posts each one to the kernel to the 'check' state
check attempts to fetch the url via PoCo::Client::HTTP and passes
control to 'response', check also posts back to itself
with a delay set by the RSS::Feed object
response response check for a valid page then attempts to parse
the page with with XML::RSS and if it parses, passes
control to 'parsed'
parsed takes the structure returned by XML::RSS and set it
in the current RSS::Feed object (which creates an
RSS::Feed::Headline object for each title
It then does a test to see if there are any new
headlines and if there are hands control to announce
announce just calls callback with the new headlines it finds
right now it just returns an array ref, but will
probably end up returning RSS::Headline objects
I'm not sure where RSS::Feed and RSS::Feed::Headline should be
XML::RSS::Feed and XML::RSS::Feed::Headline so that may be a
consideration as well.
-- Jeff Bisbee / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / jbisbee.com
