While I was developing a new build for the ASP Slashdot Headline Parser, it seems slashdot.org has blocked the IP of my Webserver :(... So I don't know if I will ever again be able to get the latest xml file from slashdot.org. I was in the process of moving all of the XML transfer logic to other functions so that the code is much more modular, obviously a bug in my transfer function has bitten me in the butt.
ASP Slashdot Headline Parser is a simple Active Server Page script to include Slashdot.org news healines on your site.
This build adds more error handling, and now displays the number of comments for each article.
ASP Slashdot Headline Parser is a simple Active Server Page script to include Slashdot.org news healines on your site.
This build gracefully handles errors in the parsing of the slashdot.xml file.