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Provides utilities for working with RSS XML feeds.

Metadata

Instantiating 






getChannelAttribs()


Arguments






Name
Type
Required
Default
Options
Description






xml
string
Yes









getItemsAsArray()


Arguments






Name
Type
Required
Default
Options
Description






xml
string
Yes







version
string
No







stripHTML
boolean
No
true






truncate
boolean
No
true








getVersion()
Return the RSS version for the XML feed. Results can be either 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, 2.0 or unknown.


Arguments






Name
Type
Required
Default
Options
Description






xml
string
Yes









HTMLStripper()
Strips HTML from a string


Arguments






Name
Type
Required
Default
Options
Description






string
string
Yes


The String to be stripped






parseRSSDate()
Syndicated feeds use a variety of date formats. This function helps to decipher the date from the most common formats. Unknown dates are returned as empty strings. Parsed date times are returned in ODBC format.


Arguments






Name
Type
Required
Default
Options
Description






dts
string
Yes


Date time stamp.