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Influenced by Piers Cawleys talk on the 12 Step , I confess that the following piece of code is crappy. I wrote this a few months ago, the Monastery NNTP bridge. Basically it fetches newest XML nodes and uses Net::NNTP to store it on a (local) newsserver.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Net::NNTP;
use strict;

use XML::Parser;
use LWP::Simple;
use Data::Dumper; #debugging purposes

my $server = "192.168.0.2"; #Server

my %nodetypes = (
        'bookreview'           => 'monastery.reviews',
        'categorized answer'   => 'monastery.questions',
        'categorized question' => 'monastery.questions',
        'CUFP'                 => 'monastery.coolusesforperl',
        'modulereview'         => 'monastery.reviews',
        'monkdiscuss'          => 'monastery.discussions',
        'obfuscated'           => 'monastery.obfuscation',
        'perlcraft'            => 'monastery.craft',
        'perlmeditation'       => 'monastery.meditations',
        'perlnews'             => 'monastery.news',
        'perltutorial'         => 'monastery.tutorials',
        'perlquestion'         => 'monastery.seekersofperlwisdom',
        'poem'                 => 'monastery.poetry',
        'review'               => 'monastery.reviews',
        'snippet'              => 'monastery.snippets',
        'sourcecode'           => 'monastery.code',
        'tutorial'             => 'monastery.tutorials',
        'user'                 => 'monastery.users',
        'note'            => 'monastery.seekersofperlwisdom',
);

my $parser = new XML::Parser ( Handlers => { Start => \&hdl_start, Cha
+r => \&hdl_char});

my $nntp = new Net::NNTP($server,119,5); # debuglevel 5

#crappy code starts here...
my $id = undef;
my @Nodes = ();
my $author_id = undef;
my %attributes = ();
my %Authors = ();
my %Titles = ();
my $type = undef;
my $xml_stream = get("http://perlmonks.com/index.pl?node=newest+nodes+
+xml+generator");
$parser->parse($xml_stream);

sub hdl_start{
    my ($p, $elt, %atts) = @_;
    $type = $elt;
    if ($elt eq "NODE") { $id = $atts{node_id}; push(@Nodes,\%atts); }
    if ($elt eq "AUTHOR") { $author_id = $atts{node_id}; }
}

sub hdl_char {
    my ($p, $str) = @_;
    $str =~ s/\n//g;
    if ($type eq "NODE" && $str) { $Titles{$id} = $str; }
    if ($type eq "AUTHOR" && $str) { $Authors{$author_id} = $str; }
}

#open(FILE,">dump.db"); #Dump to disk
#print FILE Dumper(@Nodes);
#close(FILE);

my $i = 0;
foreach(@Nodes) { 
if ($i>5) { last; }
$_->{author_user} = $Authors{ $_->{author_user} }; 
$_->{title} = $Titles{$_->{node_id} }; 
if (!$nntp->head("<$_->{node_id}\@localhost.localdomain>"))
{ my $page = get("http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=$_->{node_
+id}");
  $page =~ s/<(?:[^>'"]*|(['"]).*?\1)*>//gs; #Insert HTML::Parser code
+ here...
  my @lines = split(/\n/,$page);
  @lines = map { $_."\n" } @lines;
  my @header = (
         "Newsgroups: $nodetypes{$_->{nodetype}}\n",
         "Message-ID: <$_->{node_id}\@localhost.localdomain>\n",
         "Subject: $_->{title}\n", 
         "From: $_->{author_user}\@perlmonks.org\n",
         exists $_->{parent_node} ? "References: <$_->{parent_node}\@l
+ocalhost.localdomain>\n" : "",
         "\n\n",
         @lines);
  $nntp->post(\@header);
  print $_->{nodetype},"=>",$nodetypes{$_->{nodetype}},"\n";
  $i++;
  }
}

$nntp->quit();
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The replying bit is kind of tricky, also the author s email address isn't valid (unless vroom starts creating an perlmonks address for all monks).
Update: yes, it's monastery and not monestary... I blame String::Approx :)

Greetz
Beatnik
... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.

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