[dba-Tech] Google Alerts

OK...I used an online RSS URL generator to come up with this:

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=Submarine

Using Firefox with the Sage extension (RSS Viewer), I end up with a nicely
formatted HTML page.  I know I can do a manual cut-n-paste straight from
that HTML into my page, but I'm trying to take this XML suggestion to heart.
Given the result from above, what is the next step?  One thing I see already
is that Yahoo! takes the original story URL and reformats it through them.
While we're going through this process, is it possible to strip all that
stuff out?  Basically I want to take this (watch for wrap):

- <item>
- <title>
- <![CDATA[ Submarine returning to Connecticut (WFSB 3)
  ]]> 
  </title>
 
<link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/Submarine/SIG=11vpdtklm/*h
ttp%3A//www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2675298&nav=1VGmU3Gv</link> 
  <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/Submarine/SI
G=11vpdtklm/*http%3A//www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2675298&nav=1VGmU3Gv</
guid> 
  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:48:31 GMT</pubDate> 
- <description>
- <![CDATA[ NEW LONDON -- The USS A lexandria is returning home to
Connecticut Friday. The attack sub will be coming into New London Harbor to
the submarine base at 12:30 p.m.
  ]]> 
  </description>
  </item>



...and turn it into this (watch for wrap):


<div class="item">
	<h2 class="item-title">
		<a
href="http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2675298&nav=1VGmU3Gv">
			Submarine returning to Connecticut (WFSB 3)
		</a>
	</h2>
	<div class="item-desc">
		NEW LONDON -- The USS A lexandria is returning home to 
		Connecticut Friday. The attack sub will be coming into 
		New London Harbor to the submarine base at 12:30 p.m.
	</div>
	<div class="item-pubDate">
		Fri, Dec 10, 2004 7:48
	</div>
</div>


I'd love to hear from anyone who has done this.


Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: Haslett, Andrew [mailto:andrew.haslett at ilc.gov.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 8:13 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Google Alerts


Mark
 
This is exactly what RSS was designed for.. An easy to consume, format and
display - live feed of information.  If you vist all the news sites on the
net, you'll see they offer RSS Feeds.  You just need something to consume
it.
 
What sort of system is your Intranet using?  What coding language ? Any CMS?
Most these days will have some sort of module that can consume an RSS feed.
If not, they're not overly difficult to implement yourself.
 
If you do this 'server-side', ie in the intranet back-end code subscribes to
the RSS feed, then everyone who views your intranet page will see it, and
you won't have to worry about every workstation implementing some type of
RSS Reader.
 
Cheers,
Andrew