Ray Kiddy wrote:
MySQL handles all this "changed since" checking and such. It also does it more efficiently than a PHP script. So, what problem are you all trying to solve?
We have another organization (Yahoo in this instance, but to make the problem more general, let's assume that other cases will arise) which we would like to accomodate by supplying for them a feed that is ready made for their existing software. They have a specification for input which we can easily meet. We want to do so in the most efficient way.
Yahoo wants an XML file of a particular kind. It's not complex for us to generate it. We may wonder why they want this file, and of course based on feedback from here, either Jason or I will talk to them to propose something else if it seems helpful to do so. But, this is the format that they want, and we want them to have it.
--Jimbo