Re: [xmljs-users] Atom Feeds and Encoding

[Brent J. <blj...@gm...>]

> > 1)  I can't get it to parse Atom feeds.  It just keeps returning a
> > NAMESPACE_ERR.  Anyone run into this and know how I can fix this, or a
> > way to get around it?
>=20
> I've never tried an Atom feed. Can you post as small an example as possib=
le so we can take a look
> at it?

The example the user sent to me (I'm using xmljs for a Konfabulator
widget) was a blog entry on blogspot.com:

http://trishtunney.blogspot.com/atom.xml

> > 2)  Encoding!  I'm trying to pull an RSS feed thats in french and the
> > accented characters just keep coming back as garbled when I get the
> > node value of the text node containing the french text.
> >
> Make sure the page's locale header specifies the proper encoding. Otherwi=
se, the browser has to
> guess what it should be and may very well guess wrong. Otherwise, it shou=
ld work...

Hmm, here's the example RSS feed that has french characters:
http://www.lapresseaffaires.com/rss/lpa.xml

Thanks,

- Brent