I recently uploaded a News Headline Ticker. That app uses the MS scripting (COM) based XML parsing engine that is remarkably SLOW.
I became interested in what it would take to roll my own RSS feed parser, so that's what I did. The attached file contains very little code in the form of a small but instructive demo, along with just two SUBS that performs the magic.
This is NOT a generic XML parser -- that would be a lot of work. My code is a FAST hack at fetching the relevant tags
from an RSS xml file. The demo includes a number of different feeds that you can try out.
I can't imagine there's much of a need for something like this but it was an interesting enough challenge that I thought I would share it.
Tinker away ... !
