I am using ROME in a modified version of the feedparse plugin.
It is pretty straight forward and easy.
We had issues with ROME 0.8 and ATOM or some dates. ROME 0.9 resolved
that.


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From: Nick Lothian (JIRA) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 2:35 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [jira] Commented: (NUTCH-444) Possibly use a different library
toparse RSS feed for improved performance and compatibility


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Nick Lothian commented on NUTCH-444:
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I'm a developer on the ROME project and I done some patches to
FeedParser. I've also been a long-time lurker on the Nutch lists.

To clear up a couple of misconceptions:

The current version of FeedParser is Kevin Burton's one available from
http://tailrank.com/code.php. It does have Atom 1.0 support.

ROME only has a single dependency: JDom.  

Both FeedParser & ROME load the feed into a DOM before working on it.
FeedParser exposes a SAX-like API, while ROME exposes objects. My tests
(a while ago now, but probably still reasonable) showed little
performance difference between the two libraries (See
http://www.mackmo.com/syndbench/feedparserresults.html and
http://www.mackmo.com/syndbench/romeresults.html).

I don't understand nutch.newbie's comments about different Atom & RSS
mappings. I'm not aware of any issues with the mapping of Author. There
are some docs on mappings at
http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/rome_0_9_beta_is,
http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javawsxml/Rome05DateMapping and
http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javawsxml/Rome05URIMapping.

I'd HIGHLY recommend not writing your own custom feed parser. It's a
much bigger job than you'd expect. In particular the difficulties of
dealing with the bizzare things seen in real-world feeds should not be
underestimated.

Apache Abdera  (http://incubator.apache.org/abdera/) is another option
if anyone is just interested in Atom parsing.

> Possibly use a different library to parse RSS feed for improved 
> performance and compatibility
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------
>
>                 Key: NUTCH-444
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-444
>             Project: Nutch
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: fetcher
>    Affects Versions: 0.9.0
>            Reporter: Renaud Richardet
>         Assigned To: Chris A. Mattmann
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 0.9.0
>
>         Attachments: parse-feed-v2.tar.bz2, parse-feed.tar.bz2
>
>
> As discussed by Nutch Newbie, Gal, and Chris on NUTCH-443, the current
library (feedparser) has the following issues:
> - OutOfMemory when parsing > 100k feeds, since it has to convert the 
> feed to jdom first
> - no support for Atom 1.0
> - there has been no development in the last year Alternatives are:
> - Rome
> - Informa
> - custom implementation based on Stax
> - ??

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