Jsoup selector on RSS <link> tag returns empty string with .text() method

Question

I\'m using jsoup to parse an rss feed using java. I\'m having problems getting a result when trying to select the first element in the document.

Answer 1

Your rss feed is XML, not HTML. For this to work, you must tell JSoup to use its XMLParser. This will work:

String rss = ""
  +""
  +  ""
  +  "http://www.the.blog/category"
  +"";

Document doc = Jsoup.parse(rss, "", Parser.xmlParser());

Element link = doc.select("rss channel link").first();
System.out.println(link.text()); // prints empty string

Explanation:

The link tag in HTML follows a different format and Jsoup tries to interpret the of your rss as such html tag.