RSS News Feed

' =========== RSS2HTML.ASP for ASP/ASP.NET ==========
 ' copyright 2005 (c) www.Bytescout.com
 ' ===============================================
 
 ' =========== configuration =====================
 ' ##### URL to RSS Feed to display #########
 URLToRSS = "http://rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/tech.xml"
 
 ' ##### max number of displayed items #####
 MaxNumberOfItems = 7
 
 ' ##### Main template constants
 MainTemplateHeader = "<table>"
 MainTemplateFooter = "</table>"
 ' ##### 
 
 ' ##### Item template.
 ' ##### {LINK} will be replaced with item link
 ' ##### {TITLE} will be replaced with item title
 ' ##### {DESCRIPTION} will be replaced with item description
 ItemTemplate = "<tr><td><a href=" & """{LINK}""" & ">{TITLE}</a><BR>{DESCRIPTION}</td></tr>"
 
 ' ##### Error message that will be displayed if not items etc
 ErrorMessage = "Error has occured while trying to process " &URLToRSS & "<BR>Please contact web-master"
 
 ' ================================================
 
 Set xmlHttp = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0")
 xmlHttp.Open "Get", URLToRSS, false
 xmlHttp.Send()
 RSSXML = xmlHttp.ResponseText
 
 Set xmlDOM = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.DomDocument.3.0")
 xmlDOM.async = false
 xmlDOM.LoadXml(RSSXML)
 
 Set xmlHttp = Nothing ' clear HTTP object
 
 Set RSSItems = xmlDOM.getElementsByTagName("item") ' collect all "items" from downloaded RSS
 Set xmlDOM = Nothing ' clear XML
 
 RSSItemsCount = RSSItems.Length-1
 
 ' writing Header
 if RSSItemsCount > 0 then 
  Response.Write MainTemplateHeader
 End If
 
 j = -1
 
 For i = 0 To RSSItemsCount
 Set RSSItem = RSSItems.Item(i)
 
  for each child in RSSItem.childNodes
   Select case lcase(child.nodeName)
     case "title"
           RSStitle = child.text
     case "link"
           RSSlink = child.text
     case "description"
           RSSdescription = child.text
   End Select
  next
 
  j = J+1
 
  if J<MaxNumberOfItems then 
  ItemContent = Replace(ItemTemplate,"{LINK}",RSSlink)
  ItemContent = Replace(ItemContent,"{TITLE}",RSSTitle)
  Response.Write Replace(ItemContent,"{DESCRIPTION}",RSSDescription)
  ItemContent = ""
  End if
 
 Next
 
 ' writing Footer
 if RSSItemsCount > 0 then 
  Response.Write MainTemplateFooter
 else 
  Response.Write ErrorMessage
 End If
 
  Response.End ' uncomment this line if you need to finalize output

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