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Parsing RSS feeds - 4/18/2006 12:38:00 AM

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Hi, I'm considering creating a new website which will contain a few rss feeds to relevant news stories and was looking for general advice on the best way to parse the rss feeds. I know there's plenty of free readers out there, but I was hoping to make the feeds look a little more elegant and in tune with the general design of my site than the examples I've seen. I'm also concerned about having to rely on a 3rd party site to parse the feeds in case it ever goes down etc.

I've managed to load xml documents before and incorporate them into a site using a bit of Javascript but I'm not sure how I'd actually do this using the feed. By this I mean that usually you just load your xml document from a location and then you can use the DOM, but if I have several rss feeds, could I just load them up, get the info out of them and provide the link and if so how?

Maybe I'm approaching this all wrong, so it'd be interesting to know how other people use rss to enhance their sites. I'm not looking to have lots of feeds, just a couple of things relevant to the site to enhance it. I'm fairly confident I could do this with ASP, but was hoping to keep to HTML, so that's why I was considering the JavaScript route.

Any feedback would be appreciated :)