Hi all, I am trying to pars a feed created using the dapper.net service, but I am not having much luck.

Feed: http://www.dapper.net/services/Blue_Sun_Room

Common parser results:
1. The title is correct
2. The content is however wrong - it is also showing as the title.
3. The author is not showing at all.

Simplepie parser:
All elements are creating an individual node, instead of beign part of the same node.

Ideas?

Comments

aron novak’s picture

aron novak
Primary language Hungarian
Location Hungary, Budapest
commented

Common syndication parser:
The title is in the node body only if the description of the feed item is empty. This is how the module expected to behave.
The feed is btw. really hard to handle well, because in the most of the feed items, there are no guid and no link ! So that's why some of the feed items could not be seen in the list at all.

SimplePie parser:
Please tell me what did you expect? This is a general purpose feed parsing tool, of course the separate elements are separate nodes. To see all the items together, enable FeedAPI Node Views and click on the Feed items link at the feed node.

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naheemsays commented

aah, thanks - common syndication parser is closer to what I had wanted to try (though I will try your other suggestion too).

As for the body being empty, that does not appear to be the case - each item seems to have two descriptions and that may be fooling the parser.

I may change the feed to an atom feed on Dapper as that seemed to cause less/different problems (the date being the only problem I can remember - dapper does not seem to convert dates correctly.)

thanks.