Question

I’m currently working on an ASP.NET Website where I want to retrieve data from an RSS feed. I can easily retrieve the data I want and get it to show in i.e. a Repeater control.

My problem is, that the blog (WordPress) that I’m getting the RSS from uses \n for linebreaks which I obviously can’t use in HTML. I need to replace these \n with a <br /> tag.

What I’ve done so far is:

SyndicationFeed myFeed = SyndicationFeed.Load(XmlReader.Create("urltofeed/"));
IEnumerable<SyndicationItem> items = myFeed.Items;
foreach(SyndicationItem item in items)
{
  Feed f = new Feed();
  f.Content = f.ConvertLineBreaks(item.Summary.Text);
  f.Title = item.Title.Text;
  feedList.Add(f);
}
rptEvents.DataSource = feedList;
rptEvents.DataBind();

Then having a Feed class with two properties: Title and Content and a helper-method to replace \n with <br />

However, I’m not sure if this is a good/pretty approach to get data from an RSS feed?

Thanks in advance,

Bo

Answer 1

If you are adverse to all the xml parsing in your code you can also run the rss xml schema through xsd and generate a topic and feed class in you code.

This classes should serialize/deserialize to xml. This may be overkill but it’s worked great for me when integrating with a standard xml api for a third party.