Loading RSS feed with a title and image

Report · May 30, 2013

This is My code to load and display the discription in output window :

var bbcRSS:URLLoader = new URLLoader;

bbcRSS.load( new URLRequest ("http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml") );

bbcRSS.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, handleComplete);

function handleComplete ( e:Event ):void

{

var rawXML:XML = new XML (bbcRSS.data);

trace (rawXML.channel.description);

}

This is the XML code :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<?xml-stylesheet title="XSL_formatting" type="text/xsl" href="/shared/bsp/xsl/rss/nolsol.xsl"?>

<description>The latest stories from the Home section of the BBC News web site.</description>

<copyright>Copyright: (C) British Broadcasting Corporation, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/rss/4498287.stm for terms and conditions of reuse.</copyright>

<image>

<url>http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/nol/shared/img/bbc_news_120x60.gif</url>

</image>

<atom:link href="http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/>

<item>

<title>Dozens die in Iraqi car bomb attacks</title>

<description>More than 60 people are killed and many more wounded by car bombs in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad, Basra and Samarra, police and medical officials say.</description>

<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22593345</guid>

<media:thumbnail width="66" height="49" url="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67708000/jpg/_67708799_67708681.jpg"/>

<media:thumbnail width="144" height="81" url="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67708000/jpg/_67708800_67708681.jpg"/>

</item>

<item>

<title>Kirk votes to allow gay ministers</title>

<description>The Church of Scotland's ruling General Assembly has voted to allow actively gay men and women to become ministers.</description>

<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22580322</guid>

<media:thumbnail width="66" height="49" url="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67716000/jpg/_67716091_hi018058166.jpg"/>

<media:thumbnail width="144" height="81" url="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67716000/jpg/_67716092_hi018058166.jpg"/>

</item>

I have two UILoaders on my stage with the instance name of "rssImageHolder1 and rssImageHolder2" for the images, and text fields with the instance name of "title1_txt and title2_txt" to show the titles from the item tag which is in RSS.

Can some one help Me how can I display this data please. Thanks alot

Report · May 30, 2013

Can someone post your suggestions please

Report · May 30, 2013

What are you having a problem with? You say you have the UILoaders and textfields for displaying the information, so what issue are you having with making it happen?