Help returning XML description w/ BlogCFC feed pod

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BKBK,

Wow, thank you! Once again, you are a genius. I updated the feed (below)
for the site I'm developing. It displayed the title and descriptions of
the three articles posted so far.

I just uploaded the site's first podcast and it appears along with the
articles on the home page's feed display ( http://tinyurl.com/2q6v7g).

The other three entries are in the "Articles" category, while the
podcast entry's category is "Podcast."

Do you know how to modify your code to return entries from the
"Articles" category only?

BKBK wrote:
> one way to do it
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> <cfscript>
> function getFirstNWords(str, n) {
> var first_n_words="";
> for (i=1; i LTE n; i=i+1) {
> first_n_words = first_n_words & " " & listgetAt(str,i," ");
> }
> return first_n_words;
> }
> </cfscript>
>
> <cftry>
> <cfset theURL =
> " http://www.platformmagazine.com/blog/rss.cfm?mode=full">
> <cfhttp url="#theURL#">
>
> <cfset xml = xmlParse(cfhttp.filecontent)>
> <cfset items = xmlSearch(xml, "//*[local-name() = 'item']")>
> <cfloop index="x" from="1" to="#min(arrayLen(items),5)#">
> <cfset item = items>
> <cfoutput>
> <a href="#item["link"].xmlText#">#item["title"].xmlText#</a><br>
> Description (first 10 words): #getFirstNWords(item["description"].xmlText,
> 10)# <br><br>
> </cfoutput>
> </cfloop>
> <cfcatch type="any">
> <p>Feed temporarily down.</p>
> </cfcatch>
> </cftry>
>

one way to do it