RSS, Atom and Sitemaps

from lxml import etree

feed = etree.fromstring(b"""<rss version="2.0">
  <channel>
    <title>ReadyCamel blog</title>
    <link>https://www.readycamel.com/</link>
    <item><title>XML namespaces explained</title><link>https://www.readycamel.com/tutorials/xml/namespaces</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item>
    <item><title>Streaming large XML files</title><link>https://www.readycamel.com/tutorials/xml/streaming</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item>
  </channel>
</rss>""")
print(feed.findtext("channel/title"))
for item in feed.iterfind("channel/item"):
    print("-", item.findtext("title"), "|", item.findtext("pubDate")[5:16])

<?php
$feed = simplexml_load_string('<rss version="2.0">
  <channel>
    <title>ReadyCamel blog</title>
    <link>https://www.readycamel.com/</link>
    <item><title>XML namespaces explained</title><link>https://www.readycamel.com/tutorials/xml/namespaces</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item>
    <item><title>Streaming large XML files</title><link>https://www.readycamel.com/tutorials/xml/streaming</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item>
  </channel>
</rss>');
echo $feed->channel->title, "\n";
foreach ($feed->channel->item as $item) {
    echo "- ", $item->title, " | ", substr($item->pubDate, 5, 11), "\n";
}

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;

public class Main {
    static String text(Element e, String name) {
        return e.getElementsByTagName(name).item(0).getTextContent();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        String xml = """
            <rss version="2.0">
              <channel>
                <title>ReadyCamel blog</title>
                <link>https://www.readycamel.com/</link>
                <item><title>XML namespaces explained</title><link>https://www.readycamel.com/tutorials/xml/namespaces</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item>
                <item><title>Streaming large XML files</title><link>https://www.readycamel.com/tutorials/xml/streaming</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item>
              </channel>
            </rss>""";
        Element channel = (Element) DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder()
            .parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes("UTF-8"))).getElementsByTagName("channel").item(0);
        System.out.println(text(channel, "title"));
        NodeList items = channel.getElementsByTagName("item");
        for (int i = 0; i < items.getLength(); i++) {
            Element item = (Element) items.item(i);
            System.out.println("- " + text(item, "title") + " | " + text(item, "pubDate").substring(5, 16));
        }
    }
}