XML parser for RSS reader

[thecoder]

Hello
I want to write an RSS reader, I found the TinyXml as an XML parser.
my question is can I use this library or I should use another one more
sophisticated like expat and xerces-c.
Thanks

 

[Juergen Kahrs]

I want to write an RSS reader, I found the TinyXml as an XML parser.
my question is can I use this library or I should use another one more
sophisticated like expat and xerces-c.

If you plan to implement a command-line tool,
have a look at the simple implementation that
I wrote with XMLgawk:

http://home.vrweb.de/~juergen.kahrs/gawk/XML/xmlgawk.html#Reading-an-RSS-news-feed

It's about 40 lines long, including comments and blank lines.

 

[thecoder]

Thanks for the link, I'm planning to use a GUI for this application

 

[Juergen Kahrs]

Thanks for the link, I'm planning to use a GUI for this application

OK, but remember that you can always write a GUI on top
of a command line tool.

 

[thecoder]

you're right, but I don't see any utility to implement an new rss
reader as command line.

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Kahrs?=]

you're right, but I don't see any utility to implement an new rss
reader as command line.

Have a look at the way how such GUIs are implemented.
For example:

k3b, a CD and DVD creation tool
TaskJuggler, a project management tool
MS Visual Studio or Eclipse

The most important advantage for seems to be that the
command line tool can be _tested_ automatically.
Especially in regression tests.

 

[thecoder]

a CD and DVD creation tool is very more complicated than RSS reader and
I think it will be very useful to have a command line tool, for the
developper or for the user as well.
I understand your point, but the main functionality of an RSS reader
will be interpret the xml and then display its content to the users,
which is a graphical action.