feeds

Back in about 2006, I wrote a nice XSLT that transformed my RSS feeds into custom HTML. That way if a user clicked from a browser it would display as a simple page rather than a bunch of junk XML. If that same URL was used in a feed reader it was handled properly and everything was slick. Now days, most browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera) seem to grab hold of the styles and won't let go. And Chrome just plain ignores the stylesheet transformation. Given that it has been several years, am I simply forgetting some detail? Didn't it used to just be this easy? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8

I have a site. Would it help its SEO ranking if I allow B2B business customers to repost the site's blog's RSS feed (I'm thinking of using the partial RSS feed with links back to the site to "read more."), will that boost SEO rankings? What if I (1) give the business customers (They may not be very tech savvy, and therefore, I'd like to give them the easiest solution.) JavaScript to put on their page that renders the RSS feed? Will the search engines even be able to detect this since it's done with JavaScript Or, (2) should I give them iFrame code? Or, (3) is the best option to write the

I have a calendar feed (.ics) available from my application, but it's quite large since it includes over 4,000 events. Is there a standard or best practice when it comes to specifying how many events get downloaded or how far back or forward the calendar should go? My main question though, is how to configure or set an update limit on the calendar so say a user is subscribing to the calendar using Outlook that it's only updated every few hours. I currently have my feed cached for a few hours, but if I could have Outlook or whatever client the user is using only check for updates every few

when retrieving and caching/saving (in a database) some posts from an rss feed, how to determine that: it is the same post (example: when some typos are fixed in the feed or if the title changes, the date changes, etc...) find feeds that talk about the same topic (example: same story from different sources) are there any best practices for these things? thnx a lot Some RSS feeds have a guid element as an identifier. Posts with a shared guid are probably duplicates. Some RSS feeds just stuff the URL in there to indicate that a post's uniqueness is tied to its url. Note that if the URL matches

I'm building a system for updating large amounts of data through various CSV feeds. Normally I would just loop though each row in the feed, do a select query to check if the item already exists and insert/update an item depending if it exists or not. I feel this method isn't very scalable and could hammer the server on larger feeds. My solution is to loop through the items as normal but store them in memory. Then for every 100 or so items do a select on those 100 items and get a list of existing items in the database that match. Then concatenate the insert/update statements together and run