Hi Udayanga, this project is about improving the data sources for XWiki Watch, which is currently using data from RSS feeds. We would like, first of all, to perfect RSS data collection (to be able to extract more content from the feed source, to detect duplicates, etc) and, more, we would like to be able to integrate other data sources such as: - extracting data from plain HTML pages (using semantic markup methods or just plain scraping). This would allow the user to add a random HTML page as an article in XWiki Watch. - being able to add an office document to XWatch as an article, using XWiki office importer plugin - being able to hook XWatch to an email account so that it reads data from emails sent to that address (for reading mailing lists, for example) - anything you can think of that would allow integration of content used in watch activities in XWiki Watch. The requirements of this project are, obviously, flexible and so is the execution. Depending on the proposal and vision about the project, the tasks can be limited or extended in the direction the student would like to pursue. Happy coding, Anca Luca usw wickramasinghe wrote:

Hi devs , I'm a Computer Science undergraduate Student wiling to undergo a project for GSoc 09 under Xwiki . I've contacted this list before and would like to undergo 'Improved content fetching mechanism for XWiki Watch' XWiki project for Gsoc 09 . I would really like to know some more detail regarding the scope and requirement for this project before submitting my proposal. Really appreciate some feedback on above aspects n thnx in advance..

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