• This is actually more of a general post rather than specifically about WordPress, but I was curious about Xanga’s RSS feeds. I know that there are more than a few RSS parsers (I use CG-Feedread) and I know Xanga features RSS feeds (with fixers to validate the code). The problem is that Xanga’s RSS feeds don’t have a <pubdate> but instead just list the date in the <title> (eg. <title>9/21/2004 1:42:25 AM</title> ).

    Is there any way to create a script that would take the title of the posts in the Xanga RSS feed and translate that into a valid <pubdate> (e.g. <pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:10:46 -0500</pubDate>)

    I realize that Xanga’s RSS feed is missing the weekday (Mon, Tues, Wed., etc.), but is there any way to write a script that can automatically fill that in and then spit out a valid <pubdate> for each post in the feed? Or is this not feasible? Thanks.

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  • If the title IS the date, that’d be something simple to additionally check for if the pubDate field didn’t exist. The CG-Feedread code is converting back and forth between timestamp formats anyway, so I’d imagine you could re-output it however you want.

    One of my ‘undocumented’ FeedRead features is “reblogging”, where I take feeds, parse them, and re-output in feed format instead of into html. Not extensively tested at this point, but originally designed for ‘multifeed’ parsing, where I’d grab a half-dozen feeds, sort entries by date, then re-output a new combined feed.

    So, both feasible, and not that far out of reach — at least, I don’t think… ??

    -d

    -d do you have this ability with word press? A Reblogger? I would like to do this.

    actually, I mis-spoke. I’m >working< on a reblogging-extension to the CG-Feedread code. What it currently does is ‘refeeding’. Grabs a bunch of source feeds, processes them, and builds a new, combined XML/RSS feed file for republishing to the net. But doesn’t ‘auto-post’ feed entries to a blog as yet… it’s coming at some point.

    -d

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