NAME

       XML::RSS::Headline - Persistant XML RSS Encapsulation

VERSION

       2.2

SYNOPSIS

       Headline object to encapsulate the headline/URL combination of a RSS feed.  It provides a unique id
       either by way of the URL or by doing an MD5 checksum on the headline (when URL uniqueness fails).

CONSTRUCTOR

   XML::RSS::Headline->new( headline => $headline, url => $url )
   XML::RSS::Headline->new( item => $item )
       A XML::RSS::Headline object can be initialized either with headline/url or with a parse XML::RSS item
       structure.  The argument 'headline_as_id' is optional and takes a boolean as its value.

METHODS

   $headline->id
       The id is our unique identifier for a headline/url combination.  Its how we can keep track of which
       headlines we have seen before and which ones are new.  The id is either the URL or a MD5 checksum
       generated from the headline text (if $headline->headline_as_id is true);

   $headline->multiline_headline
       This method returns the headline as either an array or array reference based on context.  It splits
       headline on newline characters into the array.

   $headline->item( $item )
       Init the object for a parsed RSS item returned by XML::RSS.

   $headline->set_first_seen
   $headline->set_first_seen( Time::HiRes::time() )
       Set the time of when the headline was first seen.  If you pass in a value it will be used otherwise calls
       Time::HiRes::time().

   $headline->first_seen
       The time (in epoch seconds) of when the headline was first seen.

   $headline->first_seen_hires
       The time (in epoch seconds and milliseconds) of when the headline was first seen.

GET/SET ACCESSOR METHODS

   $headline->headline
   $headline->headline( $headline )
       The rss headline/title.  HTML::Entities::decode_entities is used when the headline is set.  (not sure why
       XML::RSS doesn't do this)

   $headline->url
   $headline->url( $url )
       The rss link/url.  URI->canonical is called to attempt to normalize the URL

   $headline->description
   $headline->description( $description )
       The description of the RSS headline.

   $headline->headline_as_id
   $headline->headline_as_id( $bool )
       A bool value that determines whether the URL will be the unique identifier or the if an MD5 checksum of
       the RSS title will be used instead.  (when the URL doesn't provide absolute uniqueness or changes within
       the RSS feed)

       This is used in extreme cases when URLs aren't always unique to new healines (Use Perl Journals) and when
       URLs change within a RSS feed (www.debianplanet.org / debianplanet.org /
       search.cpan.org,search.cpan.org:80)

   $headline->timestamp
   $headline->timestamp( Time::HiRes::time() )
       A high resolution timestamp that is set using Time::HiRes::time() when the object is created.

AUTHOR

       Jeff Bisbee, "<jbisbee at cpan.org>"

BUGS

       Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-xml-rss-feed at rt.cpan.org", or through the web
       interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=XML-RSS-Feed>.  I will be notified, and then
       you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

       You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

           perldoc XML::RSS::Headline

       You can also look for information at:

       •   AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

           <http://annocpan.org/dist/XML-RSS-Feed>

       •   CPAN Ratings

           <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/XML-RSS-Feed>

       •   RT: CPAN's request tracker

           <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=XML-RSS-Feed>

       •   Search CPAN

           <http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-RSS-Feed>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       Special thanks to Rocco Caputo, Martijn van Beers, Sean Burke, Prakash Kailasa and Randal Schwartz for
       their help, guidance, patience, and bug reports. Guys thanks for actually taking time to use the code and
       give good, honest feedback.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

       Copyright 2006 Jeff Bisbee, all rights reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
       itself.

SEE ALSO

       XML::RSS::Feed, XML::RSS::Headline::PerlJobs, XML::RSS::Headline::Fark,
       XML::RSS::Headline::UsePerlJournals, POE::Component::RSSAggregator