message_board_thread.xml

<table xmlns="http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/schema/table.xsd">
  <meta>
    <author>Wojciech Dziemianczyk</author>
    <description>Yahoo Message Board - Thread View</description>
    <sampleQuery>SELECT * FROM {table} WHERE thread='/mbview/threadview/?&amp;bn=12b865d6-8061-30c4-86c1-40adf7076aee&amp;tid=1363551452427-b9ea6d29-72d8-4a47-ab24-e79fdf81c9ff';</sampleQuery>
  </meta>

<bindings>
  <select itemPath="" produces="XML">
  <urls><url></url></urls>
  <inputs>
    <key id='thread' type='xs:string' paramType='variable' required="true" />
  </inputs>
  <execute>
    <![CDATA[
    
    	function getNextPage(){
    		var output="";
	    	try {
	    		var page_results = y.xpath(data, "//ul[@class='future']/li");
	    		for each ( var li in page_results ) {
	    			if ( li.a.span.text() == "Next") {
	    				return li.a.@href.text();
	    			}
	    		}
    		} catch (err) {
    			return err;
    		}
		return output;
	}
    
    	
	function getMessages() {
		var messages = <message_board></message_board>;
		
		for each ( var tr in path) {
			var message = <messages></messages>;
			var published = <published></published>;
			var popularity = <popularity></popularity>;
			var replies = <replies></replies>;
			
			try {
				var title = tr.td[0].p.a.text();
				var link = tr.td[0].p.a.@href.text();
				
				var cite_time = tr.td[0].cite.span.text();
				var cite_user = tr.td[0].cite.a.text()
				var cite_user_link = tr.td[0].cite.a.@href.text();
				
				published.appendChild(<time>{cite_time}</time>);
				published.appendChild(<user>{cite_user}</user>);
				published.appendChild(<user_link>{cite_user_link}</user_link>);
				
				var pop_up = tr.td[1].span.text();
				var pop_down = tr.td[1].p.span.text();
				
				popularity.appendChild(<up>{pop_up}</up>);
				popularity.appendChild(<down>{pop_down}</down>);
				
				var reply_count = tr.td[2].span.text();
				var reply_last_date = tr.td[3].span.text();
				var reply_last_user = tr.td[3].cite.a.text();
				var reply_last_user_link = tr.td[3].cite.a.@href.text();
				
				replies.appendChild(<count>{reply_count}</count>);
				replies.appendChild(<last_date>{reply_last_date}</last_date>);
				replies.appendChild(<last_user>{reply_last_user}</last_user>);
				replies.appendChild(<last_user_link>{reply_last_user_link}</last_user_link>);
				
				message.appendChild(<title>{title}</title>);
				message.appendChild(<link>{link}</link>);
				message.appendChild(published);
				message.appendChild(popularity);
				message.appendChild(replies);
				
				messages.appendChild(message);
			} catch (err) { }
		}
		
		response.object.appendChild( messages );
		return true;
	}
	    
	try {  
		var base_url = "http://finance.yahoo.com";
		var url = base_url + thread;
		
	    	var query = y.rest( url );	
	    	var data = query.accept( "text/html" ).get().response;
	    
	    	var path = y.xpath(data, "//li[@class='mb-item']");
		var size = path.length();
		
		var next_page = "getNextPage()";
		
	    	response.object = <result size={size} next_page={next_page}>{path}</result>; ;
    	
    		
	} catch(err) {  
   		response.object = {'result':'failure', 'error': err};  
	} 
	
	  
]]></execute>
</select>
</bindings>
</table>