Reading a RSS feed using visual C#

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I am trying to a read a RSS feed and display in my C# application. i have used the code below and it works perfectly for other RSS feeds. I want to read this RSS feed ---> http://ptwc.weather.gov/ptwc/feeds/ptwc_rss_indian.xml and the code below doesn't work for it. I don't get any errors but nothing happens, the text box which i want the RSS feed to be displayed is empty. Please help. What am I doing wrong?

 public class RssNews { public string Title; public string PublicationDate; public string Description; } public class RssReader { public static List<RssNews> Read(string url) { var webResponse = WebRequest.Create(url).GetResponse(); if (webResponse == null) return null; var ds = new DataSet(); ds.ReadXml(webResponse.GetResponseStream()); var news = (from row in ds.Tables["item"].AsEnumerable() select new RssNews { Title = row.Field<string>("title"), PublicationDate = row.Field<string>("pubDate"), Description = row.Field<string>("description") }).ToList(); return news; } } private string covertRss(string url) { var s = RssReader.Read(url); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); foreach (RssNews rs in s) { sb.AppendLine(rs.Title); sb.AppendLine(rs.PublicationDate); sb.AppendLine(rs.Description); } return sb.ToString(); }

//Form Load code///

 string readableRss; readableRss = covertRss("http://ptwc.weather.gov/ptwc/feeds/ptwc_rss_indian.xml"); textBox5.Text = readableRss;

Anemoia · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-06 12:07:50Z

It seems that the DataSet.ReadXml method fails because there category is specified twice in the item, however under a different namespace.

This seems to work better:

public static List<RssNews> Read(string url) { var webClient = new WebClient(); string result = webClient.DownloadString(url); XDocument document = XDocument.Parse(result); return (from descendant in document.Descendants("item") select new RssNews() { Description = descendant.Element("description").Value, Title = descendant.Element("title").Value, PublicationDate = descendant.Element("pubDate").Value }).ToList(); }

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