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docile YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 3	RSS feed & processing Jul 8th, 2007, 5:01pm   hello, i'm an "almost-newbie-processing-user". i'm looking for a way to use strings from rss feeds. i look around and i don't find an answer to this problem. is there someone to help me ?

Bas YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 35	Re: RSS feed & processing Reply #1 - Jul 8th, 2007, 5:42pm   Hi docile, Wikipedia says: "RSS formats are specified using XML, a generic specification for the creation of data formats." I say: RSS is XML. Processing comes with a XML library. Check out XML library examples: http://processing.org/reference/libraries/xml/index.html

docile YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 3	Re: RSS feed & processing Reply #2 - Jul 8th, 2007, 7:29pm   thank you very much, bas. with this library, the xml is read from a local file. what i'm looking for is the ability to read xml from an url. By example : "http://processing.org/updates.xml" i'm not really sure to understand the way to use this library, maybe i'm wrong ?

Bas YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 35	Re: RSS feed & processing Reply #3 - Jul 8th, 2007, 8:17pm   Yeah, instead of a local file name enter the url Code: import processing.xml.*; XMLElement xml; void setup() {  size(200, 200);  xml = new XMLElement(this, "http://processing.org/updates.xml"); } If you're having trouble understanding and working libraries, classes and objects you could try to familiarize yourself with those first.
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docile YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 3	Re: RSS feed & processing Reply #4 - Jul 8th, 2007, 8:27pm   ok, thank you very much Bas. i will take a look.