dirtyRSS - A dirty but self-contained RSS parser

  use dirtyRSS;

  $tree = parse($in);

  die("$tree\n") unless (ref $tree);

  disptree($tree, 0);

dirtyRSS is a terribly dirty RSS parser, which doesn't require any other module to work. It parses a string, and creates a tree, which represents the RSS feed.

It doesn't support the complete XML syntax, only things that are commonly used in feeds.

All tags are lowercased, namespace indicators are removed, and several typical non-RSS-2.0 tags are translated shamelessly to their 2.0 counterpart. There is also plenty of fiddling with the data on the way.

The only good thing about this parser, is that it works most of the time, and it makes the tree look as if it came from an RSS 2.0, for a large parts of feeds of various sorts.

If the parse fails, an error message is passed via the return value, rather than a reference to an array.

The following functions are exported:

parse() and disptree().

The module is based upon trials and errors, so naturally there are going to be more errors.

This module is released to the open domain. There are no restrictions using it.

The module is part of the Editaste site, http://www.editaste.com/rawlist

Eli Billauer, <perldev@editaste.com>