Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:04 AM.

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system.verbs.builtins.mainResponder.news.openRoot

on openRoot (rootName) {
	<<Return the address of a news site, given the site's name.
		<<Changes:
			<<06/01/00; 5:55:25 PM by PBS
				<<Allow an entry in news.root be an address or string (that can be coerced to an address) that points to a table in another database. Bug 
	
	on error () {
		scriptError ("There is no news root named \"" + rootName + "\".")};
	
	local (f, adr);
	try { //newsRoot may be defined in the page table
		local (pta = html.getPageTableAddress ());
		if defined (pta^.newsRoot) {
			rootName = pta^.newsRoot}};
	adr = @[system.temp.mainResponder.newsRootFile].[rootName];
	if (typeOf (adr^) == addressType) or (typeOf (adr^) == stringType) { //06/01/00 PBS: allow item in news.root to point to a table in another database
		if not defined (adr^^) { //make sure this address points somewhere
			error ()};
		adr = adr^}; //de-reference the address
	if not defined (adr^) {
		error ()};
	
	return (adr)}

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This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.