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Merging Multiple RSS feeds

I’m very new to programming with RSS feeds to please forgive me if this sounds like a really general question. Is it possible to take multiple RSS feeds from multiple sites and combine them as a single object to show to the end user? For example, could I take the latest news headlines from one site, the latest blog updates from a tota...

Apply XSL to RSS Feed

I want to display an RSS feed from Feedburner on my website, however I'd like to be able to apply an XSLT to it as well. Is it possible to fetch a URL in an XSLT rather than add the link to the style in the XML? ...

Writing an RSS feed to MySQL using PHP

Basically I need to create a PHP document that will read an RSS feed and the write the information to a MySQL document. However I have very little experience in this area and I was wondering if someone would be able to provide an example of how to do this? I was thinking about something that incorperated MagpieRSS, however the documentat...

What's a reliable way to check an RSS feed for new entries?

Part of an app I'm building needs to check RSS feeds for updates. I'm looking for a reliable way to know if a feed has new entries. I know that sometimes people make posts to the future and, after that, posts to the present time which could cause some entries to be hidden. It seems like there could be more complications than that, as we...

How to prevent invisible Firefox requests to RSS feeds linked to pages

Firefox browser always requests feeds linked to page and this requests brings garbage to my development serever logs. It there any way to switch off this annoying requests? ...

parse xml in an iframe

Hi, I want to be able access an rss feed from js. I have the ability to configure both servers to use the same domain (but different subdomains - eg static.benanderson.us and tech.benanderson.us). I was hoping I could use the document.domain property to get around the xss issue. Here's a snippet http://static.benanderson.us/example.j...

Rss library in .NET

Hi there Is there a RSS library for .NET? Thanks ...

I'm having trouble parsing a facebook feed using simplexml

http://www.facebook.com/feeds/share_posts.php?id=207302593&viewer=207302593&key=d95b2de790&format=rss20 The link above is the URL to my shared posts on Facebook. When I load that URL in to simplexml_load_file() it provides an entire page of errors. Looking at the errors, it looks like Facebook is spitting out HTML instead of...

Python 3.1 RSS Parser?

Anyone know of a good feed parser for python 3.1? I was using feedparser for 2.5 but it doesn't seem to be ported to 3.1 yet, and it's apparently more complicated than just running 2to3.py on it. Any help? ...

rss feed in EBSCO igoogle

I am setting up RSS feeds for searches and journal alerts from the EBSCO database in iGoogle. The widget only allows three results on my iGoogle page but I might have 10 or 12 articles or results that should be fed into the spot. EBSCO said I had to edit the html code to a number larger than 3. However, the code is lengthy and I don't...

News Data API or Feeds

I would like to know if there is any news feeds/api that can be used for coding/datamining. Skygrid for example gives live news feeds and if the news is good or bad, but it's all in flash and they don't seems to provide any rss other than their twitter. ...

javascript problem, rss feed display

hi, my code lists items from an rss feed onto an html page. although, the java script is a little finicky. it won't read some xml feeds, usually the feeds containing list items over 25. I just need another set of eyes to take a look at the code and tell me if i'm missing something obvious. .js file---------------------------------------...

Parsing text content in ColdFusion

Hi guys, I am attempting to parse text from a <cfoutput query="...">. I am interested in finding the number of times every word in the text is displayed. For example: "My name is Bob and I like to Bob". should result in Bob - 2 Name - 1 etc, etc, etc. I take my <cfoutput> from a twitter RSS feed. Here is my code: <blink> <cfse...

What is the best way to fetch RSS, in real time or almost.

I would like to know what's the best way to fetch RSS feeds in real time without having to download the entire feed even when it hasn't been changed. I don't really mind the language, I'm just looking for the best way to do that. ...

Preventing invalid characters from being written to an RSS Feed

I am working on blogging software. Occasionally users manage to paste control characters into their blog posts (for example someone recently managed to paste in the vertical tab character, ). When we render the posts in an RSS Feed, XML parsers fail to parse the control character and declare the feed invalid. One way to fix this wo...

Do I need PHP to serve an HTTP Header with the correct content-type for RSS/ATOM?

I want to send my RSS/Atom feeds with the correct Content-type header, can I do this without access to PHP or any other server-side language? The goal is for the browser to treat the file as a feed and not just a plain XML file. ...

jQuery parsing RSS and namespaced element like <content:encoded>

I am using jQuery to parse an RSS feed. Within each <item> is a namespaced element like <content:encoded> I want to select. How do I select it in jQuery? $(xml).find('item') works but $(xml).find('item content') does not. ...

Zend_Feed entires and colon seperated keys

Hey everyone! I've created a function that consumes an RSS feed from Flickr using Zend_Feed. Unfortunately I am struggling to extract some keys! I can get the < title > and such by echoing $entry->title(); But how can I echo out something like < media:thumbnail >? I'm sure there's a completely simple way of doing this but I can't f...

utf-8 to iso-8859-1 encoding problem

I'm trying preview the latest post from an rss feed on another website. The feed is UTF-8 encoded, whilst the website is ISO-8859-1 encoded. When displaying the title, I'm using; $post_title = 'Blogging – does it pay the bills?'; echo mb_convert_encoding($post_title, 'iso-8859-1','utf-8'); // returns: Blogging ? does it pay the b...

What is the proper way of handling xml-stylesheet :xmlns:blah with haml?

I'm trying to hook up a blog with some xml namespaces and xml stylesheets. The ugly way that I'm doing this currently looks like so: !!! XML = partial('xmlstyle') %channel ......blah..... = partial('xmlend') where _xmlstyle.xml.erb looks like: <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?> <?xml-st...