I'm looking for a general overview or best practices for displaying RSS feeds on my website. I've seen very basic tutorials that use WebRequest to get the XML and then display in a repeater or data list. However, since the server that hosts the RSS feed might be slow to respond, I want to use an async method and display progress while the feed is loading. I've watched the video on asp.net that shows hot to use Sys.Net.WebRequest in JavaScript code to make the async request and update a div with the HTML content.
However, I think I'm running in to trouble with the HTML content, maybe because my page that gets the RSS feed and outputs the HTML for the main page to display includes it's own head and body tags as well as a bunch of other junk. Since I'm trying to set div.innerHTML to the results (get_responseData), that is causing some JavaScript errors.
How do others go about doing this? Should I have my async web re ...
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