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Hi everyone, sorry for pasting this question everywhere but Im new to forums and Ive only just figured out how to start my own topic.

Ive seen alot of themes out there with information posted from a designated website - for example the top 5 news headlines from a new site etc. Ive downloaded some of these themes to see if i could figure out how they are done but I cant see anything that helps me. Is there a tutorial on this or can anyone give me any pointers?

Any help is greatly appreciated
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Most of the ones I have seen are using a RSS feed.
This makes it a lot easier to look through the file and extract the information instead of looking through html.

Here is an article describing the RSS format
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html

You will see that most of the widgets parse the returned xml for certain tags and then translate that into the desktop objects that display the correct information

Hope this helps
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
If there are no RSS feed or other XML data availible people tend to parse HTML files as well. HTML files aren't allways that reliable as they change the format quite often.
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