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Trying to create a RRS feed with google news. I'm using the example from the RSS lesson.
As with other people it is not displaying. I have tried changing "RDF" to " "rss/channel". It didn't work!

Thanks

What does "didn't work" mean? The data didn't download? Wasn't formatted correctly? Something else?

It didn't display. I can't tell what the exact problem. I'm not good enough with this code to identify the problem.

Can you share that part of your code so we can see what's going on?

Sure. There was a piece of the code with the comment "//Error", I've changed and am getting an error there.

## Get the 'item' child nodes of the xml tree starting from the node represented by sItemPath.
put revXMLChildNames(tTreeID,sItemPath, return, "item", true) into tItems
if item 1 of tItems is "xmlerr" then
answer "Error"
end if

edit I had re downloaded the code and forgot to change local sItemPath ="rss/channel". This error is no longer displaying but it's still not working :/

I've done a little testing and it seems its the tHtml that isnt displaying.

command createRssArticles pItems
local tHtml, tItem

## Loops through all the items contained in the RSS feed, adding their data to the html
## text which will be displayed within the field on the stack.
repeat for each line tItemName in pItems
put itemGet(tItemName) into tItem
put "<p><a href=" & quote & tItem["link"] & quote & ">" & tItem["title"] & "</a></p>" after tHtml
put "<p>" & tItem["pubDate"] & "</p><p></p>" after tHtml
end repeat

if tHtml is not empty then
set the htmlText of field "Articles" to tHtml
end if
end createRssArticles

Try replacing this:

set the htmlText of field "Articles" to tHtml

...with this:

set the text of field "Articles" to tHtml

...so you can see what the output looks like. Posting it here will be helpful.

<p><a href=""></a></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href=""></a></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href=""></a></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href=""></a></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href=""></a></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href=""></a></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href=""></a></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href=""></a></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href=""></a></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href=""></a></p><p></p><p></p>

I was testing also. I removed the published date and that made it worked! Minus the date obviously