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Asked: 2026-06-10T06:36:42+00:00

I’m writing an Android app for a client of mine that will display his

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I’m writing an Android app for a client of mine that will display his RSS feeds. He has 2 different feeds. One of them works flawlessly with the code I’ve written using examples. When I replace the URL with his second feed, I get random line breaks everywhere (particularly after an opening bracket < and again before the closing bracket < ).

This is a link to the working feed – http://prgk.ca/wD

Here is the rss feed that doesnt seem to parse correctly using the same code – http://prgk.ca/ps

Heres an example from the logcat. You can see that every < and > it also puts a line break for some reason…

08-19 09:43:46.444: I/RSSReader(6045): Get the Android App to  know when your advisor is available!
08-19 09:43:46.444: I/RSSReader(6045): http://www.keen.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/r00tman/Get-the-Android-App-to--know-when-your-
08-19 09:43:46.452: I/RSSReader(6045): advisor-is-available/624194.aspx
08-19 09:43:46.452: I/RSSReader(6045): Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:39:00 GMT
08-19 09:43:46.452: I/RSSReader(6045): 8ca05964-da1c-4176-9dbc-9d0bc609bb83:624194
08-19 09:43:46.452: I/RSSReader(6045): r00tman
08-19 09:43:46.452: I/RSSReader(6045): 0
08-19 09:43:46.452: I/RSSReader(6045): http://www.keen.com/CommunityServer/blogs/642011/comments/624194.aspx
08-19 09:43:46.452: I/RSSReader(6045): http://www.keen.com/CommunityServer/blogs/642011/commentrss.aspx?PostID=624194
08-19 09:43:46.452: I/RSSReader(6045): http://www.keen.com/CommunityServer/blogs/rsscomments/624194.aspx
08-19 09:43:46.452: I/RSSReader(6045): <
08-19 09:43:46.452: I/RSSReader(6045): a href="http://majesticvision.com/downloads/android/love-tarot.apk"
08-19 09:43:46.452: I/RSSReader(6045): >
08-19 09:43:46.452: I/RSSReader(6045): <
08-19 09:43:46.452: I/RSSReader(6045): img src="http://www.majesticvision.com/keen/2012-08-16_App-Shot.png" height="75" width="385" /
08-19 09:43:46.460: I/RSSReader(6045): >
08-19 09:43:46.460: I/RSSReader(6045): <
08-19 09:43:46.460: I/RSSReader(6045): /a
08-19 09:43:46.460: I/RSSReader(6045): >
08-19 09:43:46.460: I/RSSReader(6045): <
08-19 09:43:46.460: I/RSSReader(6045): br /
08-19 09:43:46.460: I/RSSReader(6045): >
08-19 09:43:46.460: I/RSSReader(6045): <
08-19 09:43:46.460: I/RSSReader(6045): br /
08-19 09:43:46.460: I/RSSReader(6045): >

Heres a screenshot showing the issue. In this particular one, the URL from the < link >< /link > tag is split in an odd place so part of the URL is missing, and all I am getting from the < description > < /description > tag is just “<” when there should be a whole article

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  1. Editorial Team

    I ended up getting around this. In my RSSHandler class, i commented out the parts reseting the state

    public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length) {
    String theString = new String(ch, start, length);

    switch (currentstate) {
    case RSS_TITLE:
        _item.setTitle(theString);
        // currentstate = 0;
        break;
    case RSS_LINK:
        _item.setLink(theString);
        // currentstate = 0;
        break;
    case RSS_DESCRIPTION:
        _item.setDescription(theString);
        // currentstate = 0;
        break;
    case RSS_CATEGORY:
        _item.setCategory(theString);
        // currentstate = 0;
        break;
    case RSS_PUBDATE:
        _item.setPubDate(theString);
        // currentstate = 0;
        break;
    default:
        return;
    }

    Then in my RSSitem class, i made the string add on to itself instead of just resetting it each time

    void setDescription(String description) {
    _description = _description + Html.fromHtml(description).toString();
}

    Its probably not the best fix out there but it ended up working perfectly for me!

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