Re: [xsl] Retrieve images from a RSS feed

[Nic James Ferrier <nferrier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"M. David Peterson" <m.david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, 17 May 2007 13:53:31 -0600, Rien van Herpen (@Home)  
> <R.van.Herpen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to extract the images from a RSS feed via XSL
>
> Use an extension function. A generic approach: Create a new file stream,  
> access the image via the proper protocol, write the bytes to the file  
> stream, close the file stream, save the file stream to disk.  Dependent  
> upon whether you are using .NET or Java, there are more efficients ways to  
> handle this for each platform.

The XSL looks like this:

 <xsl:template match="/">
     <xsl:for-each select="//enclosure[starts-with(@type, 'image/')]">
        <xsl:value-of select="@href"/>
     </xsl:for-each>
 </xsl:template>


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