[kw-pm] seeking a location

[lloyd carr]

The CS club has already discovered the value of XML.
If Daniel's little project could encourage others to discover
publishing in XML we could share information without all the
scraping, I'm all for it. I would suggest that we start by storing
our own website data in XML format.

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Simon Law wrote:

> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:05:19 -0400
> From: Simon Law <sfllaw at engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
> To: kw-pm at mail.pm.org
> Subject: Re: [kw-pm] seeking a location
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 05:09:19PM -0400, Daniel R. Allen wrote:
> > Here's a toy script which uses the CS club at the U of W as an
> > example.  It reads their (well-formed) events page and turns it into
> > either a text file or RSS file (news feed format).
>
> 	Uhm, the reason why this is so is because the events page is
> generated from XML.  http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events.xml.
>
> > Do you think publishing an integrated list of upcoming techie meetings
> > would be useful?
>
> 	As long as it is maintained, yes.  Be forewarned that this will
> takes _years_ off your life, and almost nobody will appreciate or thank
> you for it.
>
> Simon
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