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Onag

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May 8, 2004, 09:34 AM
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*Bump*

This can actually be accomplished fairly easily by using RSS (Really Simple Syndication). It's a standard (or at least it's in the process of becoming standard) means of exporting news, blogs, or basically anything using XML.

Here's what needs to happen:

J2O needs to use a [freely available] RSS writer to export what it wants.
- This would generate a file like www.jazz2online.com/jcf/thread-182496.xml
Other websites simply pass that file to their [freely available] RSS reader.
- They can then display it using any means desired (typically XHTML).

This actually sounds like a fun project to work on. Problem is, if it was used too extensively, it would eat more J2O bandwidth. It shouldn't be too bad, though. Admins would be able to 'turn on' RSS for a particular thread or forum, so they wouldn't have thousands of useless XML files laying around. Also, very few people would actually tap into the RSS for their websites.

Hmm, I think I'm going to try something like this with the Mechaius forum. Not that anyone goes there, but it would still be fun.

-Nag
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