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so my friend asked me to explain whats an rss feed (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by siriusmart to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Yep, it's a PITA to parse and get the values you want. Much prefer JSON. Recently when I needed to parse XML I ran it through an XML to JSON library. Much easier!

If you need to parse XML just for RSS though, it isn't so bad as there are RSS specific libraries which take most of the pain away.