XML 2.0 RSS feed处理Android

Question

Have a look at the feed here . It is easy to process XML 1.0 / 1.1 where they only have normal characters in the <description> tag. However, the RSS feed mentioned above has HTML tags like <strong> , <em> , etc and not to mention, JavaScript function calls and special characters.

What I, as a beginner to Android, do is to make my own SAX parser to get the data from specific tags, put them into objects that represent feeds and make an ArrayList / Vector out of them. All I get is character data in the characters(..) callback method of DefaultHandler .

Now, how do I properly display this text with all the HTML formatting, the JavaScript function calls, etc in Android?

I mean, the one who made the RSS feeds for this put it all this in because they wanted the feeds to hav a certain look-and-feel. Please help me with this.

Answer 1

Don't reinvent the wheel..

As recommended here ,use android-rss library to read parts of RSS 2.0 feeds.I have used it in my project and it works brilliantly..

  RSSReader reader = new RSSReader();
  RSSFeed feed = reader.load(feedUrl);
  List<RSSItem> list = feed.getItems();
  for (RSSItem i: list) 
  {
    i.getTitle();//title content
    i.getDescription();//description content
    i.getLink();//link
  }

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To view the description content use Html.fromHtml which would return styled text..

TextView textView= (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView1);
textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(descriptionContent));