syndication

Creating an RSS feed in ASP.NET 3.5

How would you create an RSS feed in ASP.NET 3.5 using C#? What framework pieces would help in making the publishing of an RSS or Atom feed easier for the .NET developer? Are there any extra features in .NET 4 to make this task easier than in 3.5? ...

ASP.NET WCF Syndication Service : Firefox doesn't recognize RSS 2.0 feed

Hi, i have created new WCF Syndication Service Library in Visual Studio to publish web content in RSS 2.0 and ATOM formats. If i open xml feeds in IE it works ok and shows it human-friendly. In firefox works only with ATOM. RSS feed it show as an ordinal XML file. [ServiceContract] [ServiceKnownType(typeof(Atom10FeedFormatter))...

Is there a clean way to determine RSS version?

Is it possible to determine the feed type and version in a way so that you can make sure that you have the correct version. At the lowest level so to speak. Namespaces is an obvious approach, but its not present for a lot of feeds. Any thoughts? (I'm trying to mashup varioius RSS Feeds). Thanks in advance for any help! ...

ASP.NET C# Write RSS feed for Froogle

Hi, I'm trying to create a RSS 2.0 feed in ASP.NET C# with products to provide to Froogle. The RSS feed should look like: http://www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?answer=160589&hl=en I'm using the SyndicationFeed and SyndicationsItems to create the feed. But I'm having trouble adding the extra elements like g:image_l...

How to read "dc:creator" element from an RSS feed using System.ServiceModel.Syndication

Scenario I am consuming an RSS feed that looks, in part, like this: <item> <title>Blog Title Here</title> <link>http://blogurl.com/2010/03/23/title/&lt;/link&gt; <comments>http://blogurl.com/2010/03/23/title/#comments&lt;/comments&gt; <pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:44:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>AuthorName</dc:crea...

Twitter feed appears to be both RSS 2.0 and Atom?

I'm parsing various site feeds, and putting together a small library to help me do it. Looking at the Atom RFC and RSS 2.0 specification, feeds from Twitter seem to be a combination. Twitter specifies an Atom namespace in an RSS 2.0 structure? GitHub uses Atom, whereas Flickr (offers multiple but the default 'Latest' feed from user pro...

The type or namespace name 'Syndication' does not exist in the namespace 'System.ServiceModel' After updating to VS2010

Hello, i get the following error when trying to compile my asp.net site after updating the project from vs2008 to vs2010 The type or namespace name 'Syndication' does not exist in the namespace 'System.ServiceModel' (are you missing an assembly reference?) I have the asp.net site targeting 3.5 framework (as it did in vs2008) I also add...

How to display content of one site in another using PHP?

Hello I'm trying to show contents of two websites in one another , someone suggest me to use RSS reader but my question is : is there anything else i could try to show the contents , beside using rss !? i thought i can connect to the database of another website , but that didnt work / thanks in advance ...

RDF Usage Rates for Syndication

Is RDF still used widely for content syndication? Specifically, I know only of Slashdot as a large scale website syndicating content in that format (say versus RSS). Understandably this might seem vague to answer so more specifically: Can anyone list any larger sites similar in scale to Amazon or CNN using it? Any web based publishin...

Question on SyndicationItem - ASP.NET

I am trying to understand how to use SyndicationItem to display feed which is RSS 2.0 or Atom compliant. What property of SyndicationItem gives me the entire description of the post. It appears that there is a Summary property but per MSDN, it gives only the Summary. Also I have noticed that in my RSS feed reader, some RSS feeds show on...

SyndicationItem.Content in .NET

Is there a reason I can get the Summary but not the Content of a SyndicationItem. I am looking for the entire post. It appears that it depends on how the RSS feed is configured. Is this true? Can I expect to read the entire content of any RSS feed from the wild? Thanks ...

How do I take an RSS feed from wordpress.com and add the newest post of the feed to another website?

I am building a static site using php files. On the index.php file, I need to dynamically pull the RSS feed of a certain wordpress.com blog. The only information I need to pull is the excerpt content of the newest post (1 post total). When the wordpress.com blog is updated, the content on the index.php file should update to an excerpt of...

Are RSS and Atom sufficient for publication and syndication, or should I investigate a third option?

For web feeds we all know of RSS and Atom, but is that it? Isn't there a third option? If not, why? Are RSS and Atom more than qualified to meet today's demand to distribute information? ...

Can't get GeoRSS to work

Hi, I need to create GeoRSS view in Django but only got error Exception Type: TypeError Exception Value: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'feed_guid' Exception Location: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/syndication/views.py in get_feed, line 117 I red GeoFeed and Syndication in Django docs many...

Is there a more current way to fix the error encountered when parsing a DateTime value in the XML?

As you can see in this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/210375/problems-reading-rss-with-c-and-net-3-5 There is a problem when trying to read some Rss Feeds that express their date differently. I have tried the workaround posted there but I am not that experienced and I am trying it on Windows Phone 7. My main difficulty i...

How to mark "seen" RSS entries?

So I have played with the idea of making a specialized RSS-reader for some time now, but I have never gotten around to it. I have several project that could benefit from reading feeds in one way or another. One project for this is an RSS-bot for an IRC-channel I'm on. But I havent quite wrapped my mind around how I can "mark as read" a ...