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StudyShare’s Verse of the Day, now XML Flavored!

January 15th, 2003 Posted in Resource Filled

One sure way to get your web site mentioned here at Heal Your Church Web Site is to create a web service or a content stream that we can use on our church web sites, blogs and other online media. Which is exactly what I told Troy Farrell when he emailed me the following information:

You’ve heard from me before, even if you don’t remember. I’ve been looking for a daily verse in XML, but didn’t find one yet. So, I’ve rolled my own:

HTML:
http://www.studyshare.net/light/

XML:
http://www.studyshare.net/light/light.xml

Please comment on the XML format. The URL isn’t permanent, but can be made so quickly. The verse comes from the light ministry by email. A python script parses the email and sucks the data into Zope’s database.

Love the attitude! Troy couldn’t find one so he made one. Cool! And about the only comment I have about the XML is that perhaps you might want to use an RSS/RDF syndication format. Perhaps an additional feed that has five days worth? Other than that - good job! No lie, I was thinking of modifying VerseScrape in a similar fashion to render its content XML but I guess there’s no need to now. Good work Troy!

Keep the web services and data streams coming!

* UPDATE *
Troy just emailed me with updated URLs — update your bookmarks accordingly. He also writes:

You’ve inspired me. I’m working on the needed xml specification. I call it dailyverse. It can be the xml standard for syndicating daily bible verses, unless you know of another…Coming soon (within the next 3 hours i hope) to
http://www.studyshare.net/dailyverse/

Comments and code snippits accepted.

How’s that for a change?-)

Pretty darn’d good Troy! Pretty darn’d good!!

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  2. By Scott Christensen on Jun 5, 2003

    Just wanted to give a big shout out to Troy for creating this. It’s incorporated into our site now. Ah, I love dynamic content!

    Check it out at http://www.gslcwi.com/dailyVerse.php

    God Bless,
    Scott

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