Thanks! it works without a single problem now! 
Are there any restrictions on usage of this template? [import]uid: 24111 topic_id: 19980 reply_id: 78144[/import]
I would be bothered if you repackaged it and sold it in a tool set without throwing me something. But you can use it to build your apps anyway you see fit.
[import]uid: 19626 topic_id: 19980 reply_id: 78151[/import]
Nice thanks!
Then maybe you will see your name in the credits in one of my future apps! 
[import]uid: 24111 topic_id: 19980 reply_id: 78154[/import]
Tested some different rss sites and some of them have one tiny (really tiny) problem, they miss the last char.
This is one of the feeds that got the problem: http://www.joystiq.com/rss.xml
Edit:
Here is another: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Feber [import]uid: 24111 topic_id: 19980 reply_id: 78165[/import]
What do you mean by “Last Char”, of each item? The item’s description? The last char of the entire file?
[import]uid: 19626 topic_id: 19980 reply_id: 78168[/import]
Oops maybe should have told you that 
The title of each story is missing the last letter/number/symbol [import]uid: 24111 topic_id: 19980 reply_id: 78170[/import]
Both of those feeds have the title embedded in a tag to protect HTML text or other character data that would look like malformed XML to the RSS namespace.
Looks like it’s in the xml.lua file line 109
top.value = (top.value or “”)…xmlText:sub(abs,cdata_end-2)
change the -2 to a -1 and see how that works.
[import]uid: 19626 topic_id: 19980 reply_id: 78181[/import]
Thank you!
But can that screw up other feeds? Or can I set an if statement that chooses -1 or -2 [import]uid: 24111 topic_id: 19980 reply_id: 78184[/import]
It only affects RSS tags that contain CDATA tags in side them. This was likely shorting a character previously. I’ve written to the author of xml.lua for advice, but for right now, lets see how it behaves for you.
[import]uid: 19626 topic_id: 19980 reply_id: 78186[/import]
I added some swedish letters to the xml file cause it seemed to have some problems with those characters on some sites. The problem was that if I printed all the story titles to the terminal it replaced them with a ? but if I used display.newText to print them on the screen, it left a blank row instead.
So I added them to the UTF-8 list but it didn’t helt at all 
Any ideas?
My xml.lua file:
[code]
module(…, package.seeall)
–
– xml.lua - XML parser for use with the Corona SDK.
– version: 1.0
– NOTE: This is a modified version of Alexander Makeev’s Lua-only XML parser
– found here: http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaXml
function newParser()
local DEBUG = false
XmlParser = {};
function XmlParser:ToXmlString(value)
value = string.gsub (value, “&”, “&”); – ‘&’ -> “&”
value = string.gsub (value, " “<”
value = string.gsub (value, “>”, “>”); – ‘>’ -> “>”
–value = string.gsub (value, “’”, “’”); – ‘’’ -> “’”
value = string.gsub (value, “”", “”"); – ‘"’ -> “”"
– replace non printable char -> " "
value = string.gsub(value, “([^%w%&%;%p%\t%])”,
function ©
return string.format("%X;", string.byte©)
–return string.format("%02X;", string.byte©)
–return string.format("%02d;", string.byte©)
end);
return value;
end
function XmlParser:FromXmlString(value)
value = string.gsub(value, “([%x]+)%;”,
function(h)
return string.char(tonumber(h,16))
end);
value = string.gsub(value, “([0-9]+)%;”,
function(h)
– hack to deal with UTF-8 entities
if h == “8217” or h == “8216” or h == “8218” then return “’” end
if h == “8211” then return “-” end
if h == “8212” then return “–” end
if h == “8230” then return “…” end
if h == “8220” or h == “8221” or h == “8222” then return “”" end
if h == “8214” then return “™” end
if h == “8226” then return “.” end
if h == “229” then return “å” end
if h == “197” then return “Å” end
if h == “228” then return “ä” end
if h == “196” then return “Ä” end
if h == “246” then return “ö” end
if h == “214” then return “Ö” end
if tonumber(h) >= 1000 then return “” end
return string.char(tonumber(h,100))
end);
value = string.gsub (value, “”", “”");
value = string.gsub (value, “’”, “’”);
value = string.gsub (value, “>”, “>”);
value = string.gsub (value, “<”, " value = string.gsub (value, “&”, “&”);
return value;
end
function XmlParser:ParseArgs(s)
local arg = {}
string.gsub(s, “(%w+)=([”’])(.-)%2", function (w, _, a)
arg[w] = self:FromXmlString(a);
end)
return arg
end
function log(…)
if DEBUG then
print("XmlParser: ", unpack(arg))
end
end
function XmlParser:ParseXmlText(xmlText)
local stack = {}
local top = {name=nil,value=nil,properties={},child={}}
table.insert(stack, top)
local ni,c,label,xarg, empty,cdata_end,cdata_end2,abs
local i, j = 1, 1
while true do
ni,j,c,label,xarg, empty =
xmlText:find("", i)
if not ni then break end
local text = string.sub(xmlText, i, ni-1);
local cdata_start,cdata_start2 = text:find(" if (cdata_start) then
abs = i+cdata_start2
log(“Found CDATA start tag”, abs)
cdata_end,cdata_end2 = xmlText:find("%]%]>",i)
log(“Found CDATA end tag”, cdata_end2)
i = cdata_end2+1
else
i = j+1
end
if not cdata_start and not string.find(text, “^%s*$”) then – skip white space
top.value=(top.value or “”)…self:FromXmlString(text);
end
if cdata_start then – CDATA
top.value = (top.value or “”)…xmlText:sub(abs,cdata_end-1)
elseif empty == “/” then – empty element tag
table.insert(top.child, {name=label,value=nil,properties=self:ParseArgs(xarg),child={}})
elseif c == “” then – start tag
top = {name=label, value=nil, properties=self:ParseArgs(xarg), child={}}
table.insert(stack, top) – new level
log(“openTag =”…top.name);
else – end tag
local toclose = table.remove(stack) – remove top
log(“closeTag=”…toclose.name);
top = stack[#stack]
if #stack < 1 then
error("XmlParser: nothing to close with "…label)
end
if toclose.name ~= label then
error("XmlParser: trying to close with ")
end
table.insert(top.child, toclose)
end
end
local text = string.sub(xmlText, i);
if not string.find(text, “^%s*$”) then
stack[#stack].value=(stack[#stack].value or “”)…self:FromXmlString(text);
end
if #stack > 1 then
error("XmlParser: unclosed "…stack[stack.n].name)
end
–local xml_obj = XmlObject(stack[1].child[1])
return stack[1].child[1];
end
function XmlParser:loadFile(xmlFilename, base)
if not base then
base = system.ResourceDirectory
end
local path = system.pathForFile( xmlFilename, base )
local hFile, err = io.open(path,“r”);
if hFile and not err then
local xmlText=hFile:read("*a"); – read file content
io.close(hFile);
return self:ParseXmlText(xmlText),nil;
else
print( err )
return nil
end
end
return XmlParser
end
[/code] [import]uid: 24111 topic_id: 19980 reply_id: 78306[/import]
Hi
I took youf file but don’t work
C:Runtime error: error loading module ‘rss’ from file ‘c:\documents an
ings\erasmo\desktop\rssgiralatina\rss.lua’:
c:\documents and settings\erasmo\desktop\rssgiralatina\rss.lua:27: ‘)’ e
d near '"); – ‘"’
traceback:
C: ?
C: ?
C: in function 'r
[import]uid: 100428 topic_id: 19980 reply_id: 95445[/import]
Can you post your rss.lua file in between < code> and < /code> tags (leaving out the spaces?) in its entirety?
[import]uid: 19626 topic_id: 19980 reply_id: 95729[/import]
Now
It’s works
Thanks [import]uid: 100428 topic_id: 19980 reply_id: 95735[/import]