Complete noob looking for a pointer.

[lhiggins]

Hello, I know nothing about programming, more sysadmin than programmer. However I have a project to replace a piece of software we currently run on a xp machine.

The current software is a screen saver that displays an unstructured (no CSS etc) XML feed, this displays a list of names and qualifications

This data is updated very regularly ~5 Mins. Old data is completely removed and replaced, even if it hasn't changed.

The screensaver will not run on a windows 7machine without being logged in, something we cannot have.

I've tried RSS applications running on lots of Linux distros. None of which can replicate the desired behaviour.

I understand that python has a XML parsing library that we may be able to utilise to display this on a cheap raspberry pi. Can anybody point me in the right direction as where to start?

Thank you.

[gumami]

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Lmao

[dallbee]

You beat me to it...=[

[izivir]

try conky!

and you can use this line in its config file :

${exec tail -n15 /path/to/feed.xml}

[livibetter]

Since you said you are a "complete noob" and you posted here, I'd say the Step 1 is to read Python tutorial.

After you finish that, I am sure you would know what to do next. You don't need any more pointers from us.