In its most literal sense, this means that the computer will draw me a map of every nation or street mentioned in this work ... and those of anyone else who wants to wade in, I'll be able to create maps like those of Moretti's automatically, showing the context of my own thoughts, my own ontologies connected with others, both present and historical, and they'll be able to do the same.
minimalAtom feeds. I will get around to the fancier feeds, but don't hold your breath. If someone wants to take the work and run with it, please feel free to do so.
Update: Well, this proved to be a pretty trivial task. I have munged about 98% of a
maximal
Atom feed into
RSS
1.0. I don't expect the
multipart content
feed or the
RSS
2.0 stylesheet to be anymore complicated. I guess I will try and post all of this tomorrow morning.
Up your date: So, it's all done. Save the widget to convert a
W3CDTF
date string to a
RFC822
date string which is making me feel, well, funky. Fortunately,
someone else has already done most of the heavy lifting
. Oh yeah, and some kind of kludge to deal with the fact the
XSL
spec seems to be seriously brain-dead when it comes to generating
<![CDATA[ ]]>
sections. But not tonight — there is a hockey game to watch...
Is that a date in your pocket? Steve Ball is my hero, even if the markup:cdata-section template is broken. And it goes without saying that the logic for fussing with dates in RSS 2.0 will result in bug reports. Life sucks — but often less than date processing. I will finish up some rudimentary documentation and post a tar ball this afternoon (Sunday.)
It would be curious to see what happened if you could ping, say, the del.icio.us API and return a list of for a given URL .