CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Bobo
Bobo

Reputation: 151

XML get value of element with : (colon) in name?

Please,

When parsing RSS feed, there is name space with colon like: "content:encoded" and i cant get text value from it.

Found some explanation with iterating XML items (link), but that I cant use, must use known name and then grab the value.

Is there any way to grab the value?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1046

Answers (1)

akarthik10
akarthik10

Reputation: 322

Look for something like the following namespace detail in the starting of the xml document, or parse it programatically :

<rss version="2.0"
xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
>

Then you can use 

var url ="http://blog.com/feed";
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url);
var xml = Xml.parse(response.getContentText(), false);
var itemArray = xml.getElement().getElement("channel").getElements("item");


//Use the URI from namespace details below (Example for <content:encoded>)
var data = itemArray[0].getElement("http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/","encoded").getText();

Upvotes: 1

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