I'd like the user to specify a RSS feed address and serialize the information from it. I am not interested in the XML format, but populate a strongly typed object from the XML. My question is, is there a standard that all RSS feeds support (Do all of them have date, title etc)? If so, is there a XSD that describes this. If not, how do I handle serializing a RSS feed to an object in ASP.NET?
EDIT: The SyndicationFeed's Items have the following properties:
- Title.Text -> Gives us the title
- Summary.Text -> Gives the Summary
Q1 - The Summary includes the html tags. Is there a way to strip them? I am interested only in the text Q2 - Do all RSS feeds have full content in the Summary element? I see that some RSS feeds have only a few lines for Summary while others have the entire content of the post. Thanks