From: tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...>
Date: 2006-05-10T22:01:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Generating an Atom Feed?

On Wed, 10 May 2006 02:51:12 +0900, you wrote:

>Does anyone know of a library for generating an Atom feed? I've looked 
>around, but can only seem to find parsers, not generators.

i ran into the same problem when i wrote tkblog (tck/tk) and i wanted
to create an rss feed. found parsers but no generators

>I don't imagine it'd be hard to hack up the code to do this in pure 
>Ruby, but if there's an existing library, I'd like to use it.

that's exactly what i did in tcl. i'm guessing the ruby code would be
a lot more efficient than what i did. probalby less than 20 lines of
code.

there was  a big advantage when writing it by brute force. i  learned
that the rss standard wasn't. but because it was my own code i could
change it as the standard changed :)  and when i was done i had my own
tcl extension.

the major disadvantage was that the rss standard was all over the
place. i spent hours trying to track down the "real"  standard. while
writing the code i tested a boatload of rss feed readers. some where
very forgiving of the "standard" and some were very strict.

this was a few years ago so it's entirely possible it's since been
ratified or whatever they do to nail down a standard to only a few
versions :)

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