#44 problem with link-item in RSS

[Ineluki]

parsing rss-XMLs workes fine mostly, but there is one weird behavior: the parser does not correctly return the link-child of an item. works with anything, but the channel->item->link -item.
printing the item->plaintext revealed that he </link> gets thrown into the plaintext, instead of being recognized, thus making the link->plaintext appear empty.

[LogMANOriginal]

This is because RSS uses XML syntax, while HTML is only based on XML. Unfortunately, link elements have a different meaning in HTML than in RSS (or Atom for that matter), so don't expect a HTML parser to work on XML.

SimpleXML should work for those feeds: http://php.net/manual/en/book.simplexml.php