Good, but heavy on the PERL

This book has some great info on RSS and Atom, although not as up to date as one might hope. This book, like the O'Reilly RSS book before it, has a good 1/2 of the book dedicated to PERL specific programming ideas.

Since I don't program in PERL, and can't necessarily follow along, I would much rather have seen more conceptual discussion about RSS/Atom possibiliities than the specific (PERL only) few examples.

Comments for instance - RSS has a tag, but the book doesn't go into depth at all on how to use it. As a webmaster of several blogs, I'd like to know more about the "right" way to do comments - is it as a separate feed? Can I put them inline? How do other people do it? What's the benefits one way or the other?

Overall, a good book, don't get me wrong. I'd just hoped for something a bit different, and hopefully that'll come soon.

Other Reviews

• Might have been called The Definitive Guide to RSS
• Get your creative juices flowing
• Sorely Lacking Content
• Good, but heavy on the PERL
• Far more practical than Practical RDF