More pinging stuff, as written in blog-style
Brad released a prototype for Atom Stream server for LiveJournal today, Ben was working on TypePad to support the upstream push from TypePad weblogs. Hence I spent a couple of minutes to write a consumer library: XML::Atom::Stream. It uses SAX based XML parser (XML::SAX::ParserFactory) and splices the stream into individual s, with which you can do whatever you want.
We chatted about the idea of Atom stream in the last weekend. That’s pretty quick and I love it. And yeah, this is part of our first-step answer for weblog Updates ping and RSS Ping stuff. See also Ben’s Post with nice background information about pings.