How to read RSS feeds from rss URL?

Question

I am working on an android app in which i have to fetch data from a RSS feed, i am able to read Title, link and facing problem with description. if it is in this format

<description>     
  worsening of developments in......
</description>

i am able to read it , but in some rss feeds having this format also

 <description>
    <p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/ap-sources
 </description>

i am not getting this text.. this is the Rss feed url : http://news.yahoo.com/rss/politics.

how to read this description..

i have parser for remove this tag but are you sure first description like .. Mitt Romney and his under-funded opponents are taking advantage of a weeklong lull in the Republican presidential nomination fight — no debate or primary is slated — to raise the money needed to carry out Super Tuesday strategies and compete in states beyond. — Samir Mangroliya
yes that is the description . i want get that string at the same time if the description in normal format i want to get that also.. — RajaReddy PolamReddy
see my answer and its has two class(HTMLRemoverParser,HTMLRemoverBean)class for item and parsing. in java.Cheers!!! — Samir Mangroliya

Samir Mangroliya Samir Mangroliya · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-14T10:06:11

package com.samir.XMLParser;

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;

public class HTMLRemoverParser {

    HTMLRemoverBean objBean;
    Vector<HTMLRemoverBean> vectParse;

    int mediaThumbnailCount;
    boolean urlflag;
    int count = 0;

    public HTMLRemoverParser() {
        try {

            vectParse = new Vector<HTMLRemoverBean>();
            URL url = new URL("http://news.yahoo.com/rss/politics");
            URLConnection con = url.openConnection();

            System.out.println("Connection is : " + con);

            BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                    con.getInputStream()));
            System.out.println("Reader :" + reader);

            String inputLine;
            String fullStr = "";
            while ((inputLine = reader.readLine()) != null)
                fullStr = fullStr.concat(inputLine + "\n");

            InputStream istream = url.openStream();

            DocumentBuilder builder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance()
                    .newDocumentBuilder();

            Document doc = builder.parse(istream);

            doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();


            NodeList nList = doc.getElementsByTagName("item");

            System.out.println();

            for (int temp = 0; temp < nList.getLength(); temp++) {

                Node nNode = nList.item(temp);
                if (nNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {

                    Element eElement = (Element) nNode;

                    objBean = new HTMLRemoverBean();
                    vectParse.add(objBean);

                    objBean.title = getTagValue("title", eElement);
                    objBean.description = getTagValue("description", eElement);
                    String noHTMLString = objBean.description.replaceAll("\\<.*?\\>", "");
                    objBean.description=noHTMLString;
                    objBean.link = getTagValue("link", eElement);
                    objBean.pubdate = getTagValue("pubDate", eElement);

                }
            }

            for (int index1 = 0; index1 < vectParse.size(); index1++) {
                HTMLRemoverBean ObjNB = (HTMLRemoverBean) vectParse
                        .get(index1);

                System.out.println("Item No : " + index1);
                System.out.println();

                System.out.println("Title is : " + ObjNB.title);
                System.out.println("Description is : " + ObjNB.description);
                System.out.println("Link is : " + ObjNB.link);
                System.out.println("Pubdate is : " + ObjNB.pubdate);

                System.out.println();
                System.out
                        .println("-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------");

            }

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private String getTagValue(String sTag, Element eElement) {
        NodeList nlList = eElement.getElementsByTagName(sTag).item(0)
                .getChildNodes();

        Node nValue = (Node) nlList.item(0);

        return nValue.getNodeValue();

    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new HTMLRemoverParser();
    }

}

And Bean is ::

package com.samir.XMLParser;

public class HTMLRemoverBean {

    public String title;
    public String description;
    public String link;
    public String pubdate;

}

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