Duet in Rhapsody

I am a new subscriber to Linux Weekly News. For a long time, I've been a subscriber to the Linux Journal magazine; however, the best article that I find interesting is the kernel update article diff-u by Zack Brown. Anyways, the content in LWN is tantalizing my taste buds every week on kernel and other Linux news.

I purchased an Amazon Kindle a couple weeks ago and wanted to receive my LWN automatically over Whispernet. Thus is born send-lwn-to-kindle.sh. Amazon has a free service which will convert attachments to Amazon's AZW format and email you back the converted file. Alternatively, use the [kindlename]@kindle.com to have the script mail the LWN (sans pictures so far) to your Kindle over the wireless connection for a fee of 10 cents.

The script is triggered from maildrop when my email account receives the LWN announcement email. Enjoy and please send me any improvements.

I had a problem with parsing an XML document that had a default namespace:

<books xmlns="http://someurl.com">
<book>
<title>A Title</title>
</book>
</book>


One would expect an XPath query for //book/title to return all titles, but since the namespace is set to an anonymous style namespace I had to redefine the namespace such that:

xmlns:pub=http://someurl.com"

then perform the query: //pub:book/pub:title

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