Comments on: ASP (VBScript) RSS reader/writer class http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/ hot talk about web development Tue, 10 May 2011 13:11:20 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Michal http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/#comment-11251 Michal Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:09:53 +0000 http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/#comment-11251 Lee, as far as I can see the class does not parse multiple categories when reading a feed. You would need to extend it. Lee, as far as I can see the class does not parse multiple categories when reading a feed. You would need to extend it.

]]> By: Mike Mathewson http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/#comment-11249 Mike Mathewson Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:02:24 +0000 http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/#comment-11249 Lee - I don't do anything with the category field so I haven't worked on that problem. I was only able to figure out my last problem by scouring over code samples that I could dig up on the web. In my searching I don't recall seeing anything that wold help you - sorry. Lee -
I don’t do anything with the category field so I haven’t worked on that problem. I was only able to figure out my last problem by scouring over code samples that I could dig up on the web. In my searching I don’t recall seeing anything that wold help you – sorry.

]]> By: Lee Allan http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/#comment-11243 Lee Allan Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:37:29 +0000 http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/#comment-11243 Thank you for posting this. It has been very helpful. I am having trouble with a feed that has an array of category fields for each -item. I have tried adding an array definition to the dictionary, and that did not work. Also tried to enumerate the r.items an could not get that to work. I obviously don't know how to reference the child array of item->category. Do you have a suggestion? Thank you for posting this. It has been very helpful.
I am having trouble with a feed that has an array of category fields for each -item.
I have tried adding an array definition to the dictionary, and that did not work. Also tried to enumerate the r.items an could not get that to work. I obviously don’t know how to reference the child array of item->category. Do you have a suggestion?

]]> By: Mike Mathewson http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/#comment-11210 Mike Mathewson Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:16:18 +0000 http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/#comment-11210 Figured it out, for those that are interested here's the solution: RSS.asp in the readATOM section replace this line: .link = getAttribute(n, "link", "href") with: .link = getAttribute(n, "link[@rel='alternate']", "href") Now when ATOM feeds are read, the returned link will be the link back to the URL of the item instead of the ATOM feed file. Figured it out, for those that are interested here’s the solution:

RSS.asp in the readATOM section

replace this line:

.link = getAttribute(n, “link”, “href”)

with:

.link = getAttribute(n, “link[@rel='alternate']“, “href”)

Now when ATOM feeds are read, the returned link will be the link back to the URL of the item instead of the ATOM feed file.

]]> By: Mike Mathewson http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/#comment-11193 Mike Mathewson Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:34:05 +0000 http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/#comment-11193 Michael - I’m using your ASP RSS Reader and I’ve run into a little problem. When reading ATOM feeds there are multiple parameters for each item. I’m tring to get the link that is directed back to the item which has an attribute rel=’alternate’. Unfortunately the script pulls up the first LINK which is typically ‘rel=self’ which is a link back to the feed file. I’ve tried playing around with your script but can’t figure out a way to access this alternate link. Do you know if there is a way or do you have any other tools you can direct me to? Thank you very much for your help – Mike Michael -

I’m using your ASP RSS Reader and I’ve run into a little problem. When reading ATOM feeds there are multiple parameters for each item. I’m tring to get the link that is directed back to the item which has an attribute rel=’alternate’. Unfortunately the script pulls up the first LINK which is typically ‘rel=self’ which is a link back to the feed file. I’ve tried playing around with your script but can’t figure out a way to access this alternate link. Do you know if there is a way or do you have any other tools you can direct me to? Thank you very much for your help – Mike

]]> By: Brian T http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/#comment-11100 Brian T Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:12:32 +0000 http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/#comment-11100 can you show the code for the demo using ajax and the rss reader? its hard to see what is passed back in the code with just the output :) many thanks - great code too can you show the code for the demo using ajax and the rss reader? its hard to see what is passed back in the code with just the output :) many thanks – great code too

]]> By: Michal http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/#comment-10858 Michal Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:04:21 +0000 http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/#comment-10858 @Danny: adding the base url should be not that big deal. However, I am really busy for the next time ... If you have some time you could extend it and I would release it as a new version. how does that sound? greets @Danny: adding the base url should be not that big deal. However, I am really busy for the next time … If you have some time you could extend it and I would release it as a new version. how does that sound? greets

]]> By: Danny http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/#comment-10857 Danny Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:32:29 +0000 http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/#comment-10857 Michal, Great job on this work. Work smoothly on most RSS. However, I tested on one RSS at your demo page (http://www.grafix.at/webdevbros/RSS/), putting this: http://www.maximumpc.com/articles/all/feed The images aren't showing up. Do you think it will be easy to add base url in the next version of your RSS class? Michal,

Great job on this work. Work smoothly on most RSS.
However, I tested on one RSS at your demo page (http://www.grafix.at/webdevbros/RSS/), putting this:

http://www.maximumpc.com/articles/all/feed

The images aren’t showing up.

Do you think it will be easy to add base url in the next version of your RSS class?

]]> By: Michal http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/#comment-9585 Michal Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:00:50 +0000 http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/#comment-9585 Urs i would suggest you make use of the sortedlist from .net inside ASP (check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/156436/sorting-a-collection-in-classic-asp for details( and sort the items by date .. then you create another RSS feed. should work fine. some pseudocode [asp] 'reading feeds and adding them to the sorted list 'so they get sorted automatically set list = server.createObject("System.Collections.Sortedlist") set feed1 = new RSS feed1.url = "http://...." if not feed1.failed then for each i in feed1.items.items list.add i.publishedDate, i next end if set feed2 = new RSS feed2.url = "http://...." if not feed2.failed then for each i in feed2.items.items list.add i.publishedDate, i next end if 'creating our final feed set feed = new RSS for i = 0 to list.count - 1 feed.addItem(list.getByIndex(i)) next 'write the feed to the respone feed.generate("RSS2.0", empty).save(response) 'alternatively you can write the feed to a file 'feed.generate "RSS2.0", "/feed/feed.xml" [/asp] I haven tried the code so i am not sure if it works :) It could be that the sorted list cannot store ASP "objects". in this case you would need to create a lookup dictionary.... Urs i would suggest you make use of the sortedlist from .net inside ASP (check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/156436/sorting-a-collection-in-classic-asp for details( and sort the items by date .. then you create another RSS feed. should work fine. some pseudocode

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ASP:
  1. 'reading feeds and adding them to the sorted list
  2. 'so they get sorted automatically
  3. set list = server.createObject("System.Collections.Sortedlist")
  4. set feed1 = new RSS
  5. feed1.url = "http://...."
  6. if not feed1.failed then
  7.   for each i in feed1.items.items
  8.     list.add i.publishedDate, i
  9.   next
  10. end if
  11. set feed2 = new RSS
  12. feed2.url = "http://...."
  13. if not feed2.failed then
  14.   for each i in feed2.items.items
  15.     list.add i.publishedDate, i
  16.   next
  17. end if
  18.  
  19. 'creating our final feed
  20. set feed = new RSS
  21. for i = 0 to list.count - 1
  22.   feed.addItem(list.getByIndex(i))
  23. next
  24. 'write the feed to the respone
  25. feed.generate("RSS2.0", empty).save(response)
  26. 'alternatively you can write the feed to a file
  27. 'feed.generate "RSS2.0", "/feed/feed.xml"

I haven tried the code so i am not sure if it works :) It could be that the sorted list cannot store ASP "objects". in this case you would need to create a lookup dictionary....

]]> By: Urs http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/#comment-9584 Urs Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:55:23 +0000 http://www.webdevbros.net/2007/07/01/asp-vbscript-rss-readerwriter-class/#comment-9584 Great work - but a small question back to the first comment: i hav2 "set RSSFeed1 = new RSS" and "Set RSSFeed2 = new RSS" any suggestion how i "merge" them into on and sort them by date? Only solution in my mind: put every child of the xml in one array/new xml / Database and then sort the full array. But this will take a lot of processing time ... ? Great work - but a small question back to the first comment:

i hav2 "set RSSFeed1 = new RSS" and "Set RSSFeed2 = new RSS"

any suggestion how i "merge" them into on and sort them by date?

Only solution in my mind: put every child of the xml in one array/new xml / Database and then sort the full array. But this will take a lot of processing time ... ?

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