Re: [OT] Met office data feeds

[Ho Yin Ng <yahoogroups@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh ok ..

Humm I don't know how to do it .. so I will have to google and find out how
to do what you describe.

So basically you use perl to weed out the HTML you do and don't want?

Will have to give it a try.

Ho yin

At 15:19 05/10/2004, you wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ho Yin Ng" <yahoogroups@xxxxxxx>
> > Simon the ones you have look good ..
> >
> > Though still a bit large for me. I take it you just filtered it
from the
> > websites and you therefore cannot change the or rearrange the
content?
> >
> > I really just want icons and the temp.
> >
> > As for the rssweather ... it looks good .. but I can't seem to
get it to
> > show me 3 days in advance.
> >
> > But at least I have got a bit further!
> >
>Yip, just a couple of simple pattern matches (perl), removing all
content
>before and after what I'm looking for. Doesn't produce valid html, but
I
>really don't care as long as it works.
>
>You could parse the data out of the html, but that's risky, although
the met
>office page is very nicely laid out in html, and should be easy to
parse.
>The BBC one (which uses met office data feeds) may also be simple to
parse
>for the information you want
>
>Simon
>
>
>
>
>
>
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