Re: Writing a simple RSS feed 'grabber' with XML::Parser.

[ajt]

in reply to Writing a simple RSS feed 'grabber' with XML::Parser.

I wouldn't start any project with XML::Parser, it's a bit antique, and XML::LibXML is more feature rich and much faster parser to start any project with.

Parsing RSS is a real pain, as it's often not well formed, so anything using a proper XML parser will die. XML::RSS and XML::RSS::Tools get round this by having a pre-filter in them that cleans up well know bad code, before attempting to pass the file onto the XML parser.

The XML::RSS::Tools module (which I wrote) uses XML::RSS for parsing RSS, one of several HTTP clients for getting RSS feeds, and the XML::LibXSLT module for converting the feed into something else.

Some useful nodes:

• Converting RSS file to HTML
• XML::RSS
• Using RSS
• How do I clean RSS feeds to make them usable?
• Parsing badly formed RSS or XML
• Parsing XML At All Costs

[Anonymous Monk]

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