On 31/05/06, Pillar Claire (RNL) NCAH NHS Trust <
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> The Just Published site is an excellent resource, Steve. I wondered why
> it was not possible to display publisher however - or am I just being a
> librarian?!
Thanks Claire. As the number of fields in RSS feeds is limited I had to
choose between Author and Publisher and felt that Author was more useful.
The information I get back from Blackwell's when I check for availability
does not include the publisher. I could have "scraped" the Blackwell's page
for each title for this information but this would slow down what (because
of the images and the availability check for each book) is already a slowish
page to load.
I am thinking of writing a script that would generate the pages over night
so that they load quicker during peak times (though this will mean that
availability and price data will be up to a day out of date). If I proceed
along these lines, I will look at including the publisher information.
Thanks your feedback.
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Steve Burgess
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