Re: [scoop] sports.com site file

[<jm...@jm...>]

"Eddie Cleary" said:

> Correct , I use it to scoop our own sites, this gives me one large html page
> for each sport, and with some post processing the files are shortened to
> appropriate length (suitable for wap ie < 1.4k ). I still have to cut and
> paste the stories. into the wap form. But its a lot easier than surfing
> through our whole site. It may seem incredible that we don't have a good
> resource of our own stories locally, but that's the way it is.

Ah sure I know that situation alright; been talking to a few other content
providers in similar situations ;)

> At a basic level, wml is not so different from html, You may find that with
> a little adjustment that "Sitescooper" would scoop wml just fine. Most of
> the important tags are the same, But full support would be tricky. And I
> would have to agree that most wap sites would make for a lean scoop.

I might look into it in the future if I get a chance... I'd definitely
accept patches if anyone out there fancied writing a wml_to_text()
function ;)

--j.