use Perl

• Feature request (Score:2)

  by pudge (1)

  perl -MXML::RSS -MLWP::Simple -MData::Dumper -le '$t = get("http://freshmeat.net/backend/fm-releases-themes.rdf"); $x = new XML::RSS; $x->parse($t); for (keys %{$x->{namespaces}}) { next if $_ eq "rdf" || $_ eq "#default" || exists $x->{modules}{$x->{namespaces}{$_}}; $x->add_module(prefix => $_, uri => $x->{namespaces}{$_}) }; $x = new XML::RSS; $x->parse($t); print Dumper $x->{items}[0]'

  This auto-populates the namespaces with the declared namespaces. So this file has:

  xml
  • Re:Feature request (Score:1)

    by brian_d_foy (44)

    That's a pretty long one-liner :)
    
    Let me restate the request to see if I understand what you want:

    XML::RSS should access Freshmeat's feed and automatically pull out whatever is in xmlns:fm, then add that as a module.

    I do not want to do that for every object. Perhaps a more specific method like "add_freshmeat" so the module only loads LWP if you specifically want that to happen.
    
    I can also add any common, but missing, namespaces to the default list.
    
    I'm fairly new to the RSS world, so someone needs
    • Re:Feature request (Score:2)

      by pudge (1)

      No, lemme try again.

      I just want to have add_module() called automatically for every nonstandard module in the feed. The real important code is here:

      # loop over existing namespaces
      for my $ns (keys %{$rss->{namespaces}}) {
         # skip default namespaces
         next if $ns eq "rdf"
              || $ns eq "#default"
              || exists $rss->{modules}{ $ns->{namespaces}{$ns} };
         $rss->add_module(prefix => $ns, uri => $rss->{namespace
      • Re:Feature request (Score:1)

        by brian_d_foy (44)

        Okay, I think I got this now. Automatically call add_module() for all of the namespaces in the file I have to parse. That makes sense.
        
        Would you like to paste this into RT [cpan.org] as a feature request? it's not going to happen this week because we have a long queue of patches for broken things (which come first).
        • Re:Feature request (Score:1)

          by pudge (1)

          Added, thanks.