Hi guys, I'm a student/hobbyist programmer interested in creating a web project. It's nothing too complicated, I would like to get data from an RSS feed and store that into a database. I want my website to get the information from the database and display parts of it depending on the criteria I set.
I just finished an OO programming class in Java and I thought it would be a good idea to do this in C# since ASP.NET makes web applications easier than using Java (that's what I've heard anyway). I thought it would be easy to pick up since the language syntax is very similar but I'm getting overwhelmed by the massive class library. MSDN docs are very good and thorough but the language just seems a little unwieldy and too verbose. This is how to access an RSS feed and create an XML document to manipulate it. System.Net.WebRequest myRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create("//feed url here"); System.Net.WebResponse myResponse = myRequest.GetResponse(); System.IO.Stream rssStream = myResponse.GetResponseStream(); System.Xml.XmlDocument rssDoc = new System.Xml.XmlDocument(); rssDoc.Load(rssStream); Here's PHP. $rss_feed = file_get_contents($rss_url); I realize that learning the library is part of the process, but as a beginner I appreciate simplicity. Is Python easier than C#? Can someone show how to access an XML document on the web and have it ready to be manipulated for comparison? Any other advice for a newbie? Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list