This service provide a way to read the content of an RSS syndication feed. It also define a data model (simplified compared to existing syndication feed models) to handle the informations in a more easier way.

• This service use rome-1.0RC2 to parse RSS feeds.
  • Rome use jDOM to handle XML data

• Atomic types: xsd:string & xsd:anyURY
• Complex types:
  • feedNode

    <xs:complexType name="feedNode">
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element name="author"  type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
        <xs:element name="content" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
        <xs:element name="title"   type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
        <xs:element name="type"    type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
      </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>

  • feedContent

    <xs:complexType name="feedContent">
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element name="content"  type="tns:feedNode" nillable="true" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
        <xs:element name="language" type="xs:string"    minOccurs="0"/>
        <xs:element name="link"     type="xs:string"    minOccurs="0"/>
        <xs:element name="title"    type="xs:string"    minOccurs="0"/>
      </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>

• feedContent read(xsd:anyURI url)
  • Parse the content of a feed (located at url address) and transform it into a feedContent.

• http://jseduite.googlecode.com/files/RssReader-v1.0.war