Saturday, August 25, 2012

Reading RSS News Feeds

Here is the code to read RSS feed. Hope this helps someone who is writng a code to read RSS feeds.
The final content will be stored in two arraylists.


                string RSSfeed = "http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss" ;
                ArrayList rawkeyList = new ArrayList();
                ArrayList rawvalueList = new ArrayList();
                XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings();
                settings.ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Fragment;
                settings.IgnoreWhitespace = true;
                settings.IgnoreComments = true;
                XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(RSSfeed, settings);
                while (reader.Read())
                {
                    if (reader.IsStartElement())
                    {
                        if (reader.IsEmptyElement)
                        {
                            string emptyElementName = reader.Name;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            string nameElement = reader.Name;
                            string nestedElementName = "";
                            string textContent = "";
                            reader.Read(); // Read the start tag.
                            if (reader.IsStartElement())  // Handle nested elements.
                            {
                                nestedElementName = reader.Name;
                            }
                            textContent = reader.ReadString();
                            rawkeyList.Add(nestedElementName.ToUpper() + ":" + nameElement.ToUpper());
                            rawvalueList.Add(textContent);
                        } // if IsEmptyElement
                    } // if IsStartElement
                } // while

 

 


 

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