__/ [ Fikkie ] on Tuesday 29 August 2006 15:33 \__
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> Roy Schestowitz schreef:
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>> __/ [ Fikkie ] on Tuesday 29 August 2006 12:00 \__
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>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I want to make xml's of my search results like msn does.
>> >
>> > Anyone some tips?
>>
>> How do you generate your search result?. Any system that is used for this?
>> For what it's worth, Google and Yahoo deliver search results for news as
>> RSS, but abstain from doing this for regular searches (bandwidth and abuse
>> probably being the main concern). There are third-party services, however,
>> that scrape Google results pages and deliver them as well. You could also
>> check for changes by getting plain HTML, but it's merely a workaround.
>> Anyway, what it boils down to is: what is it that gives search results
>> output? By modifying the output format, you can make it XML (RSS).
>> WordPress, for example, has this capability built in. It uses the MySQL
>> search function to slice through the data for matches, which is probably
>> not the ideal type of search to perform...
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Roy
>>
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> perl script called by a php script(FDSE)
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> I don't think it's easy to return the results as xml and then still
> being able to integrate this results while maintaining the
> functionality of the search script.
>
> I'm thinking on integrating xml tags in the results page and then ...?
Have you looked at MagPie RSS (Sourceforge project) or its siblings? There
may be place for reuse or conversion, but it sounds as though editing Perl
is needed. And while it's not too hard to write Perl, understanding it and
modifying it (second-hand) can be hard. Consider hiring John Bokma maybe...?
Best wishes,
Roy
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