Greetings Perl People:

Am learning XML::RSS::Parser::Lite, which seems simple enough to use, but am having some questions on the output.

I wrote the following program to aggregate some RSS feeds:


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#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw

use strict;
use XML::RSS::Parser::Lite;
use LWP::Simple;
    
my $xml = get("http://www.scripting.com/rss.xml");
my $rp = new XML::RSS::Parser::Lite;
$rp->parse($xml);
       
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";       
        
my $page_title = $rp->get('title');
my $blog_url = $rp->get('url');
my $blog_desc = $rp->get('description');

print "<a href=$blog_url>$page_title</a>";
print "<BR>$blog_desc<P>";
print "<hr>\n";

for (my $i = 0; $i < $rp->count(); $i++) 
{
my $it = $rp->get($i);
my $item_title = $it->get('title');
my $item_url = $it->get('url');
my $item_description = $it->get('description');
     
print "<a href=$item_url>$item_title</a><P>$item_description<P>\n";

}

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However, the output looks like this:

http://lab.marketproductions.com/cgi-bin/rss/rsstrial.cgi

As you can see, I got some of the code to work, but the HTML "inside" the posts isnt working.

Can anyone please explain a solution?

Ty.

BH

In reply to XML::RSS::Parser::Lite Question by BlenderHead

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