Re: Quartz Composition retrieve XML file

It turns out that this doesn't work very well because it assumes the semantics of RSS. That is, it only imports each RSS item once and ignores all changes, or if I change the item ID so that changed data looks like new RSS items, it creates an ever expanding list of RSS items as it appends the new items to the list. It also ignores XML data in the "description" of the item, and ignores the data if it's added into the item as a separate element; I can work around that limitation by formatting the data as plain text (very 70's) and parsing it, but I can't find a way to work around the problem with it keeping old items around.

So if I could put in a request, it'd be nice to have a setting on the RSS module to control polling time and to allow for each update to be "whole" rather than "incremental" so that after I read an RSS document with "items" 1/2/3, then an update that contains 4/5/6, I'd want to see the output of the RSS module to be 4/5/6, not what I get currently, which is 1/2/3/4/5/6. This is a minor tweak to the RSS logic, but hard to do outside of the module.

Alternatively, I'd love to be able to do some sort of call to retrieve external data. I don't care too much whether it's an HTTP GET of an XML document, or an XML-RPC call, or a SOAP call. Heck, even an HTTP GET that returns raw text is OK. I'm not proud. :-)

- LP