Hi Jelle,

On 2012-04-20 16:15, Jelle Huisman wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'd like to typeset an RSS feed and I was wondering whether I could
> instruct ConTeXt to fetch the contents of a url like:
> http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml
> Thanks for any pointers,

the fetching part is easy as we have LuaSocket:

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\starttext
\startluacode
  local bbc_rss = socket.http.request"http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml"
  context["type"](bbc_rss)
\stopluacode
\stoptext \endinput
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In your document, however, you will want to save the file locally
for a given Context session and reuse the local copy to avoid
re-fetching it on every pass. Maybe use the timestamp to force
a fresh fetch after some time.

Regards
Philipp


> 
> Jelle
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