Android rss parse - what method to use?

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Android rss parse - what method to use?

Hello everyone What would be the easiest way to parse an rss feed? Are there any already done easy(fast to implement) methods out there? All the posts I could find on the topic were many years old. Any new technologies out there that are worthy of attention? Or should I just make my own parser?

Edit: please link to a usage method/tutorial too :)

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For just reading it out, you can use DOM parser, which is very simple to use and to understand. And: It is part of the android API

poeschlorn 2010-06-28 12:22:09

Checking it...Any tutorials/examples about DOM?

Tamas 2010-06-28 12:26:40

try this out: Once it was my guide for dom. by the way it is about parsing RSS ;-)http://www.brics.dk/~amoeller/XML/programming/domexample.html

poeschlorn 2010-06-28 12:55:32

Please comment your code, if you post it somewhere. At the first and second look, I have no idea what does what or where or why. :)

Tamas 2010-06-28 13:06:25

sry, this is not my own code ;-) The main issue is, to create a multipath tree and read out the nodes...this is basically what this code above does

poeschlorn 2010-06-28 13:12:26

"Once it was my guide..." Sorry, I misread :)My issues is time, I don't want to waste time, on something that has already been done before. But it looks like, there is no real easy to use method out there.

Tamas 2010-06-28 13:21:29

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For bigger XML i would recomend a serial XML parser like SAX - it's build in: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/sax/package-summary.html

For examples just search in Google - there are milions out there: http://www.google.at/search?q=sax+android+tutorial

Mannaz 2010-06-28 12:30:58

Yeah but I can't find an easy one. My dream would be a rssparser.jar with a rssparser.seturi(), rssparser.readresponse() methods. :D

Tamas 2010-06-28 12:41:24

What about this one: http://www.anddev.org/parsing_xml_from_the_net_-_using_the_saxparser-t353.htmlIt is well structured and quite that, what you'r looking for.

Mannaz 2010-06-28 14:57:11

We choose the saxparser method, thanks for the tip!It was a lot easier to understand, than the other methods.

Tamas 2010-06-30 10:22:58

You can take the source code from Android XML Parser Performance as an example. I stick to SAXParser though XmlPullParser is good as well.
DOM is not the best option for a memory-constrained device (unless you want to manipulate the tree which you don't).

alex 2010-06-28 12:52:49

<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="2"></uses-sdk>what a dinosaur :Dchecking it...

Tamas 2010-06-28 13:12:09

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