Over the weekend I finished the second of two new chapters I promised for
RSS and Atom in Action. The
first one covered Windows RSS. The one I finished late last night is the new Chapter 7 on "The ROME newsfeed utilities." Here's the outline:
- Introducing ROME
- How ROME works
- The SyndFeed model
- Parsers, generators and converters
- The parsing process
- The generation process
- ROME limitations
- The ROME subprojects
- Parsing newsfeeds with ROME
- Parsing to the SyndFeed model
- Parsing funky RSS
- How to handle Dublin Core
- How to handle <content:encoded>
- Parsing to the RSS model
- Parsing to the Atom model
- Fetching newsfeed with ROME
- How the ROME Fetcher works
- Using the ROME fetcher
- Generating newsfeeds with ROME
- Extending ROME
- The ROME plug-in architecture
- Adding new modules to ROME
- Overriding ROME
- Summary
I also updated the book's example code, which you can find on Java.Net here:
http://blogapps.dev.java.net.