geerlingguy/Catholic-Diocese-App — Issue #8: Convert News feed parser to read actual RSS feeds
Author: geerlingguy
Created: 2012-02-25 02:27:25+00:00
State: open
Labels: Bugs

For the Archdiocese of St. Louis, I had the liberty of setting up a specialized feed for the iPhone app, which included a specially-sized image for the app, a special description and title, etc., and that feed had a rather strange structure, compared to plain-vanilla RSS:

/**
* RSS feed is in the format:
*
*

*

article title

* article date
*
article summary

* http://www.example.com
* article date
*

*/

The Prayers feed might be fine as-is, since it should be a little different anyways... people can adopt or drop this feature more readily than the News feature. Here's the prayer structure (from PrayerViewController.m):

/**
* XML feed is in the format:
*
*
*

prayer title

* http://www.example.com
* prayer summary
* prayer date
*
*/