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Reading an RSS feed with Flex 2
RSS feeds are a common way for Web site owners to provide information to the public, usually as a series of news items. Each news item is provided using a standard XML language so it can be read with an RSS reader or aggregator. In this article, I want to show you how to create a Flex 2 application that consumes an RSS feed.
We'll grab the feed from the Adobe xml news aggregator at http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna/. This aggregator displays news items from several different sources. We'll display a list of headlines from the news feed in a List control. When we click a headline, we'll see further details about that news item. We'll also be able to open the item in a Web browser to see the full details.
Sas Jacobs
Hello. I'm the Principal of Anything Is Possible, an Australian web development business specialising in web applications development and training. I'm interested in using Flash with dynamic content and I've presented at a number of International conferences on topics relating to applications development, XML and scripting components. I have recently released my second print book Beginning XML with DOM and Ajax to match the first one - Foundation XML for Flash. I have a business web site
and a personal web site.