RSS Driving Me Mad!

[Mr.D]

I'm trying to read a RSS feed.
It works somewhat OK on some feed, while it craches on others :-/

What am I doing wrong(besides from all)?
Am I looking for the wrong thing?

<code>
Dim dsPubs As New Data.DataSet
Dim xdcDOC As New Xml.XmlDocument
Dim i As Integer = -1
Dim tblItem As Integer = -1
Dim colTitle As Integer = -1
Dim colLink As Integer = -1

dsPubs.ReadXml(TreeView1.SelectedNode.Text)

For i = 0 To dsPubs.Tables.Count - 1
If dsPubs.Tables(i).TableName = "channel" Then tblItem = i
Next
If tblItem = -1 Then Exit Sub '// Not found!?

For i = 0 To dsPubs.Tables(tblItem).Columns.Count - 1
If dsPubs.Tables(1).Columns(i).Caption = "title" Then
colTitle = i
ElseIf dsPubs.Tables(1).Columns(i).Caption = "link" Then
colLink = i
End If
Next
MsgBox(colTitle & vbNewLine & colLink)
</code>

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Tim

[lancer]

> For i = 0 To dsPubs.Tables.Count - 1

If dsPubs.Tables(i).TableName = "channel" Then tblItem = i Next

For RSS
2.0 /rss/channel/ is the xpath for the channel element - but make sure that the
feed you are reading is rss and not atom, which doesn't have a channel element
(its called title there).

Regards,
Lance R.
/n
software
http://www.nsoftware.com/

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[Mr.D]

<la****@nsoftware.removeme.com> wrote

For RSS
2.0 /rss/channel/ is the xpath for the channel element - but make sure that the feed you are reading is rss and not atom, which doesn't have a channel element (its called title there).

Well that explains whay it only worked with some sites.
I got it now.

Thanks

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Tim