Question

I have a problem for parsing a rss feed using c#.
I used to use this method to load the feed.
XDocument rssFeed = XDocument.Load(@url);
But, when I notice when the feed has a xml-stylesheet this method crashes saying the xml is not well formated…
Here’s a rss feed that contains this tag
http://www.channelnews.fr/accueil.feed?type=rss

What would be the best way to parse any rss feed using c#?

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

This code works for me

    static XDocument DownloadPage()
    {
        var req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://www.channelnews.fr/accueil.feed?type=rss");
        req.UserAgent = "Mozilla";

        using(var response = req.GetResponse())
        using(var stream = response.GetResponseStream())
        using (var reader = new StreamReader(stream))
            return XDocument.Load(reader);
    }

Note, that if you omit setting UserAgent, then response will contain string ‘DOS’ that is defnintly not xml 🙂