Question

XDocument coordinates = XDocument.Load("http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch");
System.IO.StreamWriter StreamWriter1 = new System.IO.StreamWriter(DestFilePath);

foreach (var coordinate in coordinates.Descendants("guid"))
                {
                    string Links = coordinate.Value;                 
                    StreamWriter1.WriteLine(Links + Environment.NewLine );
                }

StreamWriter1.Close();

Using this code for the above URL (http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch) i am able to obtain all the links but i also want to obtain <description> and <content:encoded> element values.

The problem is that i want to obtain <description> etc values along with their guid values so that i can store them in serially (in database).

Should i use LINQ of something for this purpose ?
But how please tell ?

Answer 1

You should iterate over each “item” and retrieve its properties. Do not forget about the “content” namespace.

  XNamespace nsContent = "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/";
  XDocument coordinates = XDocument.Load("http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch");

  foreach (var item in coordinates.Descendants("item"))
  {
          string link = item.Element("guid").Value;
          string description = item.Element("description").Value;
          string content = item.Element(nsContent + "encoded").Value;

  }