A FeedAPI Parser using Querypath
Posted by budda on July 21, 2009 at 11:00pm
I've just spent a couple of hours learning the FeedAPI Parser, erm, API. Pretty straight forward. The reason was to test out an idea of using the nifty QueryPath library to parse the RSS feed markup and keep it easy to understand in the PHP code.
The module is based on the SimpleXML parser code, with most of it either ripped out or commented out.
I'm not really sure where i'm going with this - and i've done no benchmarks to see if it really is faster than any of the existing libraries like Simplepie. It might be a waste of time!
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