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From: Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>
Subject: Re: Announce: nnwarchive
Date: 09 Nov 1999 13:25:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5baeoncyk4.fsf@giga.cs.rochester.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Eric Marsden's message of "09 Nov 1999 18:52:20 +0100"

>>>>> "ecm" == Eric Marsden <emarsden@mail.dotcom.fr> writes:

[...]

ecm> So I am wondering if there is scope for a generic "wash.el" which
ecm> would take as an argument an URL (which is dynamically generated
ecm> in certain cases), a parser function which returns matches,
ecm> operating on the raw HTML, and provides automatic or
ecm> semi-automatic update services which connect to some trusted web
ecm> site where washing-authors can put updates.

A generic "wash.el" is not easy. Different pages need different wash.
Some pages need rebuild headers, some others need dissect a page into
several articles. A generic "wash.el" would have to use callback
functions or so. However, a "wash-util.el" may be possible.

-- 
Shenghuo ZHU


  reply	other threads:[~1999-11-09 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-09 17:02 Shenghuo ZHU
1999-11-09 17:52 ` Eric Marsden
1999-11-09 18:25   ` Shenghuo ZHU [this message]
1999-11-09 18:39     ` Eric Marsden
1999-11-09 18:54   ` Kai Großjohann
1999-11-09 19:11     ` Eric Marsden
1999-11-10  8:44       ` Kai Großjohann
1999-11-10  9:09         ` Eric Marsden
1999-11-10 15:28     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-11-10 21:59       ` Kai Großjohann
1999-11-11 15:34         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-11-11 18:14           ` Kai Großjohann
1999-11-11 23:11           ` Karl EICHWALDER
     [not found]           ` <vafiu38zyj4.fsf@ <shln84r5cy.fsf@tux.gnu.franken.de>
1999-11-12  9:12             ` Kai Großjohann
1999-11-12 10:14               ` Steinar Bang
1999-11-12 12:19                 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-11-10 15:32   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-11-10 16:12     ` Eric Marsden
1999-11-11 15:35       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-11-09 19:12 ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-11-10 15:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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