Question

Okay, first, I’m a noob at android programming. I have taken some Java, but I’m still learning (aren’t we all).
I’m trying to take the source code form here and have it read an RSS feed correctly. Currently I have 2 problems. I’ll just state the first one and then post another post for the second.
One the RSS feed is displayed on my device, it doesn’t include all of the details (description). When I load the feed through my browser I notice that some of the quotation marks and apostrophes are turned into " and '. For some reason this stops the parser from correctly parsing it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I found out the cause of the problem. I had to setup a string buffer in the charcters method.

public void characters(char ch[] , int start, int length)
{
    if (buffering)
            buf.append(ch, start, length);

}

Once I did that, i just assigned the stringbuffer to a string in the “endelement” method when I stored my data.

public void endElement(String namespaceURI, String localName, String qName) throws SAXException
{

    String content = buf.toString();
    Log.i("RSSReader  ",currentstate +"  " + content + "]");
    switch (currentstate)
    {
        case RSS_TITLE:
                _item.setTitle(content);
                buffering = false;
            currentstate = 0;
            break;
        case RSS_LINK:
                _item.setLink(content);
                buffering = false;
            currentstate = 0;
            break;
        case RSS_DESCRIPTION:
                _item.setDescription(content);
                buffering = false;
            currentstate = 0;
            break;

    }

After that everything worked just fine.