From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26543 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Announce: nnwarchive Date: 09 Nov 1999 19:54:47 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <5biu3bd2dh.fsf@giga.cs.rochester.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163732 19934 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:28:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:28:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA21121 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 13:56:02 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAB01070; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 12:55:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 09 Nov 1999 12:56:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA04499 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 12:55:55 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA21098 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 13:55:19 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.159]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id TAA05628 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 19:54:48 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id TAA21765; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 19:54:47 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) id TAA17473; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 19:54:47 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Eric Marsden's message of "09 Nov 1999 18:52:20 +0100" Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070098 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98) Emacs/20.4.90 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26543 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26543 Eric Marsden writes: > So I am wondering if there is scope for a generic "wash.el" which > would take as an argument an URL (which is dynamically generated in > certain cases), a parser function which returns matches, operating on > the raw HTML, and provides automatic or semi-automatic update services > which connect to some trusted web site where washing-authors can put > updates. How about xql.el? XQL seems to be a fairly simple way to get stuff from XML documents, and one would `only' have to normalize the HTML so that it is valid HTML. kai -- This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked from context. -- David Moser