How do I parse incoming RSS feeds for XML headers?

I'd like to parse my incoming RSS feeds to view the XML and then strip out the URL, title, description, author, tags, and any other relevant information from XML headers to dump into a database that I could search - is this possible? What tools would I need to accomplish this?

Thanks,
Jeff

 

Yes this is certainly possible.

You need to write your own XML parser. Or try one of these.:

CARP ( http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/ )
Magpie ( http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/ )

-Akram

 

I'm doing that in PERL using the module XML::XPath;

 

Thannks for the reply akram

Is there a site or document that spells out the headers within the RSS feed itself? I'd like to determine if there's any relevant info I can pull out of a RSS feed before dropping it into my database - basically, is there enough info within the headers of the feed itself to have the article be useful for analysis?

Thanks,
Jeff

 

Magpie is great, I have used it often.

Read the docs, there are good examples of what you need to be doing.