Reading non-standard elements in a SyndicationItem with SyndicationFeed

Question

With .net 3.5, there is a SyndicationFeed that will load in a RSS feed and allow you to run LINQ on it.

Here is an example of the RSS that I am loading:

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/">  <channel>      <title>Title of RSS feed</title>      <link>http://www.google.com</link>      <description>Details about the feed</description>      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 08 21:44:21 -0500</pubDate>      <language>en</language>      <item>          <title>Article 1</title>          <description><![CDATA[How to use StackOverflow.com]]></description>          <link>http://youtube.com/?v=y6_-cLWwEU0</link>          <media:player url="http://youtube.com/?v=y6_-cLWwEU0" />          <media:thumbnail url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/y6_-cLWwEU0/default.jpg" width="120" height="90" />          <media:title>Jared on StackOverflow</media:title>          <media:category label="Tags">tag1, tag2</media:category>          <media:credit>Jared</media:credit>          <enclosure url="http://youtube.com/v/y6_-cLWwEU0.swf" length="233" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/>      </item>  </channel> 

When I loop through the items, I can get back the title and the link through the public properties of SyndicationItem.

I can't seem to figure out how to get the attributes of the enclosure tag, or the values of the media tags. I tried using

SyndicationItem.ElementExtensions.ReadElementExtensions<string>("player", "http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/") 

Any help with either of these?

Answer 1

This should give you an idea on how to do it:

using System.Linq; using System.ServiceModel.Syndication; using System.Xml; using System.Xml.Linq; 

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SyndicationFeed feed = reader.Read();  foreach (var item in feed.Items) {     foreach (SyndicationElementExtension extension in item.ElementExtensions)     {         XElement ele = extension.GetObject<XElement>();         Console.WriteLine(ele.Value);     } }