Issues trying to use nnrss

[David Z Maze <dmaze@MIT.EDU>]

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I'm experimenting with trying to use nnrss to browse various RSS
feeds.  (Shock, that.)  A couple of issues:

(1) The condition-case construction in nnrss-find-rss-via-syndic8 is
    wrong, and things die horribly if I don't have an xml-rpc
    package.  The handler needs to have a condition attached to it,
    like so:


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--- nnrss.el    27 Apr 2003 04:38:20 -0000      6.43
+++ nnrss.el    29 Apr 2003 21:44:10 -0000
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@
                                  "Multiple feeds found.  Select one: "
                                  selection nil t) urllist)))
                       (cdar urllist))))))
-    (message "XML-RPC is not available... not checking Syndic8.")))
+    (error (message "XML-RPC is not available... not checking Syndic8."))))

 (defun nnrss-rss-p (data)
   "Test if data is an RSS feed.  Simply ensures that the first

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(2) Given this, I still can't look at things like Slashdot.  If I do
    'G m slashdot nnrss RET http://slashdot.org/' to create a group,
    Gnus will hunt around for a group and then display


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    in an index.rss buffer.

(3) If I know the explicit URL of the RSS feed, say for a livejournal
    journal, I get an even more special failure.  I create the group
    by 'G m lj.debian nnrss RET
    http://www.livejournal.com/community/debian/rss', and get a
    stringp-of-list error.  It looks like this happens inside
    nnrss-check-group; if does (setq url (nnrss-discover-feed ...)),
    but what nnrss-discover-feed actually returns is an alist with the
    description, title, and href of the feed.  This patch will set url
    correctly:


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--- nnrss.el    27 Apr 2003 04:38:20 -0000      6.43
+++ nnrss.el    29 Apr 2003 21:59:17 -0000
@@ -413,9 +413,11 @@
                    (second (assoc group nnrss-group-alist))))
       (unless url
        (setq url
-             (nnrss-discover-feed
-              (read-string
-               (format "URL to search for %s: " group) "http://")))
+             (cdr
+              (assoc 'href
+                     (nnrss-discover-feed
+                      (read-string
+                       (format "URL to search for %s: " group) "http://")))))
        (let ((pair (assoc group nnrss-server-data)))
          (if pair
              (setcdr (cdr pair) (list url))

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    There's no error recovery, though; if nnrss-discover-feed fails
    utterly, you wind up with url set to sommething bizarre.

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