NAME

XML::RSS::Parser::Lite - A simple pure perl RSS parser.

SYNOPSIS

use XML::RSS::Parser::Lite;
use LWP::Simple;

my $xml = get("http://url.to.rss");
my $rp = new XML::RSS::Parser::Lite;
$rp->parse($xml);

print $rp->get('title') . " " . $rp->get('url') . " " . $rp->get('description') . "\n";

for (my $i = 0; $i < $rp->count(); $i++) {
	my $it = $rp->get($i);
	print $it->get('title') . " " . $it->get('url') . " " . $it->get('description') . "\n";
}

DESCRIPTION

XML::RSS::Parser::Lite is a simple pure perl RSS parser. It uses XML::Parser::Lite for its parsing.

METHODS

$rp = new XML::RSS::Parser::Lite;

Creates a new RSS parser.

$rp->parse($xml);

Parses the supplied xml.

$items = $rp->count();

Returns the number of items in the RSS file.

$value = $rp->get($what);

Integers sent to get returns and XML::RSS::Parser::Lite::Item while the strings title, url, and description returns these values from the RSS channel information.

$value = $item->get($what);

On an XML::RSS::Parser::Lite::Item this can return the strings title, url, or description.

AUTHOR

Copyright (c) 2003 Erik Bosrup. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Erik Bosrup, erik@bosrup.com

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