FeedParser, a brand new NSXMLParser-based RSS parser for Cocoa, has been released as an open source project on GitHub[1]. The goal of this project is to provide an extensible RSS/Atom parser that works on both the iPhone and the desktop. To that end, it is based on NSXMLParser instead of NSXMLDocument. I recognize that PubSub is available for the desktop, but FeedParser was designed primarily with the iPhone in mind. In its current incarnation, FeedParser understands all of RSS 2.0 (although it does not expose all of the possible fields). It has also been verified to correctly parse sample RSs 0.91 and RSS 0.92 feeds. It has minimal support for Atom (to the extent that it understands <atom:link> elements embedded in RSS feeds), but the architecture is such that Atom support can be added over time. It also has support for RSS extensions such as DublinCore (though again, at the moment it only understands the <dc:creator> element but more support can be added easily). Any elements it does not recognize are recorded as extension elements, similar to the mechanism that PubSub uses, although FeedParser must use its own stripped-down replacement for NSXMLElement as it does not exist on the iPhone.
At this point in time, FeedParser is perfectly usable for parsing RSS feeds in iPhone applications. It has also been tested on Mac OS X 10.5, but not on earlier versions. I expect it to work on 10.4 as well, but no earlier (it requires namespace support in NSXMLParser). FeedParser is covered under the MIT license. Feedback and patches are welcome. If you wish to provide patches, I encourage you to fork the project on GitHub and then send pull requests when you have useful changes. Please note that FeedParser is just a temporary name. FeedParser is also the name of a well-known Python RSS parsing library. If anybody has any good ideas for a name that's not taken, I would love to hear them. I would prefer to end up with something better than cocoa-feedparser. [1]: http://github.com/kballard/feedparser -Kevin Ballard -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org kball...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
