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    RSS Aggregator

    Hello,

    I am currently developing a website for a Solicitors Practice (based around Joomla). They have asked to be able to display legal news on their website.

    I have been able to successfully pull headers and description from the relevant websites but the only way you can view the content is by clicking on the link and going to the website displaying the content.

    Does anyone know of any tools, modules, components etc that can pull whole RSS articles? I have contacted the site owners who publish the rss feed and they have basically said they will not publish the whole article as part of the RSS but if I can figure out a way to do it they are happy for me to use the content (as long as I make reference to them).

    Any feedback would be appreciated.

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    Re: RSS Aggregator

    Since the content of the article is completely separate from the RSS you'd have to fetch it in a completely different way. You have the URL of the article in the RSS feed, so you could go fetch the content from that URL, parse the HTML so that you get something useable for your website and display that.

    I'd be inclined to just tell them it can't be done rather than do that though, since that's a really bad way of doing it and I can't see any other, unless you can convince them to provide some kind of web service to get access to the content.

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    Re: RSS Aggregator

    As above, you can just pull the page the feeds points to and parse out the relevant <dev> tagname that contains the text. And if they don't have their articles properly encapsulated with <dev>'s, then that's the solution on their end
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