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This crate provides a parser and common data model over Atom and RSS feeds.
It uses quick-xml a light-weight, streaming XML parser to minimise memory usage and avoids copying (clone) where possible.
The model attempts to find a balance between:
- convenience of a single field where semantic equivalence exists e.g. “description” from RSS 2 and “subtitle” from Atom are semantically equivalent and mapped to the same field
- the real world where mandatory fields may not be specified and data may not be in the correct form
Thus the parser errs on the side of leniency with the outcome that certain fields are represented as Option<T> in the model, even though they may be mandatory in one of the specifications.
Usage
The parser consists of a single method (parser::parse) which accepts an stream representing an XML document and returns a Feed.