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In the rss xml file I have my channel and several items. Typically the item has a title, link, description and maybe time or something. Can I put my own tags in there with additional data I want to send? Example: Say if was a doing a rss feed to contains weather/temperature info, I might have several item tags, with one for each city. And then in the description I would have my string description. But if I wanted to also put separate tags for temperature, windspeed, high, low, inchesOfRain, etc too I could have something parse that differently on some other client. Yes you can - create a new

What are the differences between JSON and RSS feeds? Apart from: A JSON feed is in a format that a JavaScript can easily use directly. Browsers can consume large amount of JSON much more efficiently than they can consume large amount of XML and the gap is widening because the latest versions of the browsers are now providing native, safe support for encoding and decoding JSON. If you are using JavaScript then you know what a hassle the DOM can be. I would suggest using JSON just because it is easier to program for. I also depends on where you are sending it, whether or not your clients support

I have a problem with an rss reader i use this code: http://techiedreams.com/android-simple-rss-reader/ And it works with other websites but not with mi blogger blog, i try this feed url but in the app te activity stays with a white background and do not show anithing, in the log console i can't see anything strange. minecraft-schematics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=atom minecraft-schematics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss I also try it with my wordpress blog (is the same) but it only works with rdf format and do not show any picture. How can fix this? Thanks You should try

I'm trying to write an XML parser that takes an RSS feed & fetches the image urls shown in the url attribute of the <media:thumbnail> tag. This is all being done via android.Util.Xml , & is an adaptation of the code shown here . An example RSS feed that I'm trying to use is the BBC News RSS feed . However, media is an additional namespace & (probably) as a result my parser isn't working as it should. A version of my parse method is below. Is there any (no doubt simple) way to get my list of image URLs working? public List<string> parse() { URL feedUrl = new URL("http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss

I need to display the location and city name when a user enters a ZIP Code. How do I get the corresponding location names? I would use a website like http://www.zipinfo.com/search/zipcode.htm and just send the zipcode to that, retrieve the input, parse for the city name, easy as that. Try the USPS zipcode API - http://www.usps.com/webtools/welcome.htm You can use the PlaceFinder geocoding web service to make REST based requests using the postal code you want to resolve to a name. The service supports both XML and JSON response formats . Here is a listing of the response elements returned by

I'm able to parse RSS with PHP - What I'm looking for is to be able to get only the updated content, and do nothing if there's no new update to the RSS. For example, I have this RSS File , and if there's no new content, nothing happens, but if there's a new content, I want to send my users the latest RSS update, and not resend what they already have. I'm parsing and sending the title and link only. I use cronjob to check every hour for update. My question is how can I tell that the feed is now updated and not the same as the last one? Here's the PHP file that I'm using to read the RSS. Do I