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Release Name: RC5
Notes: Aggie 1.0 RC5. See the change log for a more detailed description of this release.
Changes: 1.0 RC5 - 14Feb2003 =================== Highlights Speed Improvements Aggie now supports HTTP compression which can speed transfers. RssHarvest Aggie can now be taught how to transform any structured web page into an RSS feed. This is useful for sites that produce content in an orderly fashion, but publish no RSS feeds of their own (such as MSDN). XSLT transformation of XML documents into RSS feeds Aggie can also directly transform XML content into RSS feeds if you provide it with a proper XSLT transform. Improved Output Output Items as SMTP Messages Optionally, Aggie can send SMTP mail messages to your Email account. Improved RSS Parsing and Vocabulary Robust and extensible RSS parser The RSS parser has been completely rewritten. It is now very robust, will let you know if the feed is not stricly XML but will still parse non-well-formed feeds (within reason). Additionally, it is extensible, so you can ask it to parse elements that it does not know about. Shame into submission If the RSS parser finds a feed which is not strictly well-formed, but it still readable, it generates a detailed description of what is wrong with the feed, to help authors locate problems. New RSS elements supported In addition to title, link, and description elements, Aggie now supports Dublin Core date, encoded content, CDATA descriptions, RDF encoded content, and Trackback pings. Support for base element Aggie can now identify feeds that publish their "base", and automatically provide the proper HTML base element. This feature works only for mail output, and is most useful with RSSHarvest-ed feeds. [Ziv Caspi] Referer Logs The referer log support added in RC4 has now been removed. The users weblog URL is now added in the Agent field of referer logs. Installer Aggie now comes with an installer.
