Comments on: Parsing RSS 2.0 Feeds in ActionScript 3

By: Codeo Challenge #4: A-yeeeeeeeharrrrRRS | Cogapp

Codeo Challenge #4: A-yeeeeeeeharrrrRRS | Cogapp — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:23:43 +0000

[...] here: http://www.adobe.com/ And theres a ton of pointers online for reading RSS in AS3, like this: http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2008/01/22/parsing-rss-20-feeds-in-actionscript-3/ If you got the skills to pay the bills then git' to it pardners'. A-yeeeeeeeharrrrRRS!! Permalink [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:53:48 +0000

Mike,
Am trying to read an Atom feed using CS4 flash and as 3.0, am getting ”
3:coerce com.adobe.xml.syndication.rss::Item20
VerifyError: Error #1014: Class com.adobe.xml.syndication.rss::Item20 could not be found.”

any insight?

thanks

By: david

david — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:37:17 +0000

Is there any way to use this API to POST Atom data to a server in addition to parsing received Atom data? I need to talk to Google’s Data API and it requires that requests be in Atom format as well. Thanks!

By: gucci

gucci — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:04:15 +0000

I access it in anyway using item.pubDate. i.e. -> instead of having “Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:18:38 +0000?(from the traced XML), I get “Wed Dec 3 14:18:38 GMT-0500 2008?(from traced item.pubDate) … !

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:03:59 +0000

OK, maybe I should have tried this before I posted, but I didn’t think I knew what I was doing. But I tried and succeeded in extending the RSS20 class and Item20 class to allow my namespaces and xml elements in addition to the standard RSS 2.0 spec. I am now able to access any type of element within the RSS XML by including its namespace as another namespace in the extended Item20, and I just wrote getters for these new elements. Then I just extended RSS20 to add instances of my ExtendedItem20 class into the ‘items’ array instead of Item20 instances…

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:44:02 +0000

uggh. just realized in my post above the brackets caused the xml to be cut out of my post. corrected is here:

OK, really hoping someone can help here. I can’t make something happen:

I need to read elements in an RSS 2.0 feed that fall outside the standard RSS 2.0 types and are specified in other namespaces:

For instance, I want to be able to access in this way

myRSS20.items.item.point

an element that in the feed is namespace:point, which is a child of every item element

Of course the compiler throws an error saying that point is not a property of Item20.

Must I extend Item20 to a class that contains my necessary properties and then extend RSS20 to write ExtItem20 objects into the items array instead of Item20 objects?

I’m a bit confused. Seems like RSS20Feed and the generic package is the answer, but I don’t understand how right now. Any help is greatly appreciated…

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:09:18 +0000

OK, really hoping someone can help here. I can’t make something happen:

I need to read elements in an RSS 2.0 feed that fall outside the standard RSS 2.0 types and are specified in other namespaces:

For instance, I want to be able to access in this way

myRSS20.items.item.point

an element that in the feed is string

Of course the compiler throws an error saying that point is not a property of Item20.

Must I extend Item20 to a class that contains my necessary properties and then extend RSS20 to write ExtItem20 objects into the items array instead of Item20 objects?

I’m a bit confused. Seems like RSS20Feed and the generic package is the answer, but I don’t understand how right now. Any help is greatly appreciated…

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:25:11 +0000

Ahh.. Nice post. RSS feed is very nice. Take a look at a version I made. http://theactionscripter.com/2009/11/03/reading-a-rsstwitter-feed-with-actionscript-3.aspx It also does Twitter feeds.

By: erik

erik — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:25:02 +0000

This may be a stupid Q, but I am wondering if it is possible to send an XMLList to be parsed and apply CSS to instead of pulling out individual items and iterating through them as you have shown in your example. I am trying to do this on my own and finding it more difficult then imagined.

thanks for any direction anyone can point me in!

By: c-a

c-a — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:44:10 +0000

Hi,
first, that plugin is pretty cool.
The only thing I wish I could understand is
the pubDate Item…
Getting a Rss2 from a wordpress generator, the pubDate
is all messed up when I access it in anyway using item.pubDate. i.e. -> instead of having “Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:18:38 +0000″(from the traced XML), I get “Wed Dec 3 14:18:38 GMT-0500 2008″(from traced item.pubDate) … ! Anyone has an idea? I can’t believe I’m the only one…. Thanks!