If you're using textinput then give yourself a pat on the back, as you're among the rare few that do.
There is next to no support for textinput in most aggregator programs. It's one of those 'cool ideas' that never gained much traction. Most of the time that function was intended to lead to an HTML page of search results, not another RSS feed. It would crucify most servers if people started pulling search results as feeds. It wouldn't be a very wise use of resources to have an aggregator pulling searches in this manner. What you're suggesting, however, is sort of a good idea. But I'd be worried about how scheduled consumption of this would overload the providing server. -Bill Kearney ----- Original Message ----- From: "brettatmotorola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 08:42 Subject: [syndic8] Atom Doesn't Support "Search" > I am in the process of converting my RSS system > to use Atom. However, it seems that the search > capability of RSS using the <textinput> is not > present in Atom. Arguably, the textinput of RSS > is not the best defined, but I did find a nice > use for it in RSS. > > In the Atom spec, Sec 3.3 FeedURI, it talks > about implementing searching using multiple > link tags that implement different search results. > However, this does not allow submission of > keywords to search for (at least that I can > determine). This is more of a "browsing" paradigm. > > I did read through the Atom e-mail archive and > did not find a clear resolution to searching. > > My application of searching is quite interesting... > I developed an RSS system to manage project > reporting. Each time a project report (or other > project document) is completed, it becomes an > entry in a feed. What I am doing with the search > is interesting. I could enter a keyword such as > "prototyping". Our aggregator then scans all > RSS URLs and submits a search request (using > textinput). The search results are another RSS > feed. All of the search feeds are then reformatted > as a single search result feed. Thus, the > aggregator can then find the status of all > projects doing prototyping. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/IRislB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To find more info about Syndicated XML newsfeeds visit http://www.syndic8.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
