On 4/26/06, Sebastian Redl <sebastian.redl@getdesigned.at> wrote:
2. parsing the MSDN visual c++ feed
Result: FAILED
The path is rss.channel.item.title and I get an "xml parse error". Is
Jose wrote: there
a posibility of getting more meaningful errors ?
Do you have an URL?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/rss.xml
3. parsing the main CNN feed
Result: FAILED
The path is rss.channel.item.title. This query fails with no error but if the path is shortened to rss.channel.item it dumps all the values within item, but there is no value at that level (only nested tags)
You misunderstand your own program. A node has only one value. What your loop does it retrieve all the children of the node you select with the path and print their values. So for the path rss.channel.item.title, you get the title element of the first item element in the channel. This element has no children, so the loop is never entered. In your second test you specify rss.channel.item, so you get the item element. This element has four children: the title, link, description and pubDate elements. For each of these children, the value (content) is printed. The test succeeded.
So, what is the code to read the multiple titles ? This is my oversight for not looking at this in more detail
4. Parsing the Google News RSS feed
Result: FAILED
The path is rss.channel.item.title. I get "Invalid character entity
error".
A more meaningful error should be possible with the position in the file where the entity occurs.
Again, the problem seems to be the " entity.
5. Parsing the Google News Atom feed
Result: FAILED
The path is feed.entry.title. I get "Invalid character entity error".
Same.
Attached is a patch that fixes the bug.
Sebastian RedlI
Thanks, I think the multiple rss feeds are good for testing as they can expose multiple issues. I am glad you had tested this also. Jose