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Re: Parsing a RDF RSS Feed

Joe Chung — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:05:12 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Parsing a RDF RSS Feed

PerfectPhase — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:32:39 GMT

Because the first child is '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>'

Try this

[code language="csharp"]
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load("http://sanantonio.craigslist.org/sys/index.rss");
XNamespace rdf = "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/";
foreach (var node in doc.Root.Elements(rdf + "channel"))
{
Console.WriteLine(node.Name);
}[/code]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Parsing a RDF RSS Feed

VB Man — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:43:30 GMT

Cupiditas, there are no nodes in FirstChild ChildNodes though.

This rss document is not a normal one...

Re: Re: Re: Parsing a RDF RSS Feed

Christopher Hawkins — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:55:16 GMT

Looks valid to me. Internet Explorer picks it up fine.

You could always do this:

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(rssUrl);

foreach(XmlNode node in doc.FirstChild.ChildNodes)
{
    if(node.Name == "channel")
    {
        // etc: I'll leave the rest up to your imagination
    }
}

Re: Re: Parsing a RDF RSS Feed

VB Man — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:08:47 GMT

I looked at third party controls to do the job but none will suffice. Is the file I'm trying to parse even valid?

Re: Parsing a RDF RSS Feed

Christopher Hawkins — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:09:36 GMT

There's no built in class (unless you consider the XmlReader et al to be helpful here) but there's libraries on Codeplex and the like.