another little software development project: create an Emacs style diary from the Atom feed of my blog(s)

• http://Jochen.Hayek.name/wp/blog-en/feed/

The XML looks like this:

• each article on the blog is an “<item>…</item>” on the list of the Atom feed
• each “<item>…” has
• a “<title>…“
• a “<link>…“
• and a “<pubDate>…“

That’s all I need. Well … – WordPress truncates the blog article list shown in the Atom feed, and sometimes (at least) I want to get a longer version of this list. IIRC there are ways to instruct an Atom feed URL to return a longer list.

• The link needs a little rewriting, so that it looks like the URL shown above.
• The pubDate also needs (very little) rewriting.
• The order of the items is reverse chronological, i.e. youngest first – in my diary I want it the other way round.

Q: Why do I need this little converter at all?
A: In order to document my work in my diary (of course). I am documenting my life in my diary.

Update: Actually I want a “stream” describing all my activities on whatever sites:

• creating an article
• updating an article
• removing an article
• …

I am going to start another article describing the more general approach and listing the sites concerned. I assume Atom feeds are not powerful enough to describe what I need.