do any of the C# RSS reader support reading custom fields

Question

I have rss that has a number of other custom fields. do any of the c# libraries (RSS.NEt, etc) support reading these fields? i can't seem to find any reference to this.

what is the easier way to parse XML from an RSS feed and include customer fields

Answer 1

RSS feeds have a well defined structure. You can use XPath to get the fields you need.
Here's a sample introduction and here's the MSDN documentation.

Answer 2

One option is to just do the deserialization yourself. Throw together a few classes with attributes from System.XML.Serialization and you're set. Then you don't have to mess around with existing libraries or XPath.

Answer 3

I wound up changing the RSS.net source code to take in all custom fields as a big Dictionary a few lines changes and now i am all set.