Console news aggregator: snownews with atom2rss

[Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com>]

I'm having trouble getting snownews to accept an atom feed.
I found an atom-to-rss converter here:

http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/snowscripts/extensions/script/atom2rss/

Here is test code for a filter:

     curl http://blogs.perl.org/atom.xml | xsltproc ~/.snownews/atom2rss.xml -

This gives me an RDF document (see below, items pruned to one)

Now I try to do this in snownews entry for the URL using
the 'e' command. Re-reading the feed with 'r' shows nothing,
although there's a delay that suggests content was
downloaded, if nothing else.

(Canto would be my next choice, except that the default colors suck,
and I'm having trouble finding a suitable terminal and
locale.)

Thanks.

Joel


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"; xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"; xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"; xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/";>
  <channel rdf:about="">
    <title>blogs.perl.org</title>
    <link>http://blogs.perl.org/</link>
    <description/>
    <items>
      <rdf:Seq>
        <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogs.perl.org,2011:/users/nigel_metheringham//474.1597"/>
      </rdf:Seq>
    </items>
  </channel>
  <item rdf:about="tag:blogs.perl.org,2011:/users/nigel_metheringham//474.1597">
    <title>HTML::Scrubber maintainership</title>
    <link>http://blogs.perl.org/users/nigel_metheringham/2011/03/htmlscrubber-maintainership.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Nigel Metheringham</dc:creator>
    <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?HTML::Scrubber";>HTML::Scrubber</a> appears unmaintained at present, and I cannot find a way to contact the author (podmaster) - email bounces and I cannot see any activity later than 2006.</p> <p>If you know a means to contact <strong>podmaster</strong> aka <strong>D. H.</strong> then I'd appreciate it if you could put us in touch so I can see if he would be open to an offer of co-maintainership or handing the module over.<br /> </p>]]></description>
  </item>
</rdf:RDF>


-- 
Joel Roth