With some issues we have iRex standing firmly on our throats holding us down.
But with other issues we can take matters into our own hands, sources or no sources, SDK or no SDK.
I'm attaching a sneak peak at what my new command line tool is presently capable of doing. Yes, its pretty lame, but I'm just one break through away from it looking seriously better!
I could have waited on that break through, but I figured everyone could use a ray of hope about now, even if its presently a lame looking ray of hope. For sure we aren't getting any rays, lame or otherwise, out of iRex.
So I call it "The Daily iLiadian". It pulls an RSS XML file, parses it into items. It then builds a directory for each item in the output directory and begins work on the RSS link for that item.
It pulls down the HTML from the rss link and parses it. Each IMG tag is processed to copy down the image file and place it into the item directory with a re-written name (so there won't be any naming conflicts in the images). It then re-writes the IMG tag(s) to point to the new local copy and writes out the HTML as index.html in the item's directory.
After all items are processed a main index.html with the RSS contents and re-written links to the local items is written along with a manifest.xml to wrap it all up nicely for the iLiad.
I've still got some massaging to do on the HTML so many of the items have HTML issues that keep them from showing properly. But the Boston Globe item is mostly viewable.
Enjoy and everyone have a happier weekend (I hope).