done

examples/rss.lua

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 -- use LuaExpat and Lua-CuRL together for On-The-Fly XML parsing
 require("lxp")
+require("cURL")
 
 callback = {}
 tags = {}			
@@ -14,8 +15,8 @@ end
 
 function callback.CharacterData(parser, str) 
    if (tags[#tags -1] == "item") then
-      --we are parsing a item
-      items[#items][tags[#tags]] = str
+      --we are parsing a item, get rid of trailing whitespace
+      items[#items][tags[#tags]] = string.gsub(str, "%s*$", "")
    end
 end
 function callback.EndElement(parser, tagname)
@@ -25,12 +26,18 @@ end
 
 p = lxp.new(callback)
 
-f = io.open("slashdot", "r")
+-- create and setup easy handle
+c = cURL.easy_init()
+c:setopt_url("http://www.lua.org/news.rss")
 
-for l in f:lines() do 
-   assert(p:parse(l))
---    assert(p:parse("\n"))
-
+m = cURL.multi_init()
+m:add_handle(c)
+
+for data,type in m:perform() do 
+   -- ign "header"
+   if (type == "data") then 
+      assert(p:parse(data))
+   end
 end
 
 assert(p:parse())		--finish document