RSS Validation

[finishingmove]

I'm writing a RSS reader in C# and I haven't figured out what would be the best way to validate if the document from the URL is really formated as RSS.

doc.LoadXml(thestuff);

if{
"validation goes here";
}
else{
error message
}

 

[monksnake]

Here's a site that lists the structure of a valid RSS. You can use this to create validation rules.

Test for the required fields only (valid fields listing at the top of the webpage).

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html

As long as it parses as XML, and contains all the required RSS fields, then you know it is valid.

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