On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Kevin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:10 PM, David Primmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> Abdera has incomplete support for RSS. The initial commit mentioned
>> "So far the code is capable of parsing reasonably decent RSS 2.0 feeds
>> and partially parsing RSS 1.0." Don't know where it is now.
>>
>> from my previous link:
>> "Also, there has been some work on getting the RSS support beefed up
>> although I've been waiting on the guy to get the legal clearance to
>> contribute that work back to the project. Since I'm not the one doing
>> that work and I don't really know the guy doing it, I'm not going to
>> hold my breath. If someone (ahem) wanted to take a whack at fleshing
>> out the RSS support in Abdera I wouldn't be heartbroken in the least
>> :-)."
>>
>> here's the latest:
>>
>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/abdera/java/trunk/contrib/rss/src/main/java/org/apache/abdera/contrib/rss/
>>
>
> Hmm, the spec is pretty vague about what ContentType.FEED is supposed to
> accept, so I'm not sure if this is an issue or not.
>
> I would like to use abdera for this (assuming that we continue to use it for
> AtomPub, of course), but for now it probably makes sense to stick with ROME
> until we're sure whether or not the RSS support in Abdera is adequate. It
> should be as trivial as modifying FeedProcessor.java to use
> org.apache.abdera instead of com.sun.syndication, right?

yep.

>
>
>> davep
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Kevin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > When I asked about this a few months back I was told that Abdera didn't
>> > support RSS -- is that not the case anymore?
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:21 PM, David Primmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Just wanted to footnote this one, that abdera has feed parsing as well
>> >> and may be useful here in the future when it improves its RSS support.
>> >> It would be fairly easy to swap out rome for abdera since abdera is
>> >> already a dep in the project.
>> >>
>> >> here's a comparison
>> >> http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/rome_vs_abdera
>> >>
>> >> davep
>> >>
>> >
>>
>

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