A Delphi Solution for the 2rss Issue

Well, I have come up with a solution for myself with regard to the previously mentioned 2rss ad problem. Delphi + Irritated User = Solutions :-).

I spent a bit of time looking at the output produced by the 2rss feed and compared to what was available in the atom feed itself since that is all the www.blogger.com provides. It turns out that it is a really simple transform that is required and a few minutes of coding (in Delphi anyway) combined with an XSLT sheet solves the problem. For my personal use I have put together an ISAPI library to take any atom feed and turn it into the equivalent rss 2.0 feed. It works in the very same manner as that of the www.2rss.com tool but does it without the ads.

NOTE: This is not something that I plan to make available for anyone but myself. I simply don't have the bandwidth to allow arbitrary use.

Rather, I am making the source code for the library available for use under any terms. If you are interested you can pick it up here. If you are interested in using it you need an IIS server, MS XML 3.0, and Delphi 7 (very likely compatible with D5 and D6). If it is of use let me know and if you improve on it I wouldn't mind getting those updates back.

Back to some ad-free rss feeds ;-)