Ben Reichelt’s Weblog

I’m doing a little side project for myself that deals with rss, so to
test it I’m using the codebetter.com bloggers feeds. A little quirk (I
think) that I found is that the rss feeds that are produced from
Community Server have some weird elements. For instance, the
<author> element does not exist, instead it uses a
<dc:creator> element which contains the author of the post. 
Another one is the <comments> tag that should have a url for
comments, this one is replaced by <wfw:commentRss>.  Both of
these custom tags are defined in a namespace, per the rss spec, but I
still don’t understand why they don’t just use the typical elements for
this information, I’m starting to realize how difficult it would be to
write a robust feed parser (which is not what I want to do).

I’m attempting to use feedparser to parse my rss feeds, and I wanted to
use it in conjunction with IronPython, which I’ve only started playing
around with.  A key feature that I want is the ability to compile
a .py file so that I can consume that file in my c# code.  I’m
looking to compile the feedparser file, and then use that as my parsing
in my project. feedparser is nice because it appears to be very robust
(its got 2000 unit test, whoa!). So hopefully I can get feedparser
working with IronPython in my c# project, that be sweet.