I've been trying to get this rss newsticker working using native msl and com. Half the trouble was finding the documentation, but Ouims was a great help.

This is what I have working so far:

Code
; URLGET RSS FEED -> BINVAR            [x]
; BINVAR          -> COM XML (MSXML)   [x]
; COM XML         -> PARSE DATA        [ΒΌ]
; PARSE DATA      -> NEWSTICKER WINDOW [ ]

; IXMLDOMElement Members
; https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/ms757048(v=vs.85)

alias _rssfin {
  if (($1 isnum) && ($urlget($1).state == ok)) {
    if ($com(a)) .comclose a
    .comopen a MSXML2.DOMDocument.6.0
    if ($comerr) goto :error
    echo -ag Load into XML (slurp): $com(a,LoadXML,3,&bstr, &slurp) - $com(a).result
    if ($com(b)) .comclose b
    echo -ag selectNodes: $com(a,selectNodes,3,bstr,//item,dispatch* b)
    if ($comerr) goto :error
    var %n $comval(b,0,selectNodes), %i 1
    while (%i <= %n) {
      echo -ag $comval(b,%i,xml)
      ;parse data
      inc %i
    }
    :error
    if ($com(a)) .comclose a
    if ($com(b)) .comclose b
  }
}
; https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3809401/what-is-a-good-regular-expression-to-match-a-url
alias _rssget {
  var %pattern https?:\/\/(www\.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{1,256}\.[a-zA-Z0-9()]{1,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9()@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)
  if (!$regex($1,%pattern)) echo 4 Invalid URL
  else noop $urlget($1-,gb,&slurp,_rssfin)
}


If I type...
Code
/_rssget https://www.volkskrant.nl/voorpagina/rss.xml


...then I get the raw xml echo-ed in my window as per the line: echo -ag $comval(b,%i,xml)

However I wish to keep parsing the xml using the MSXML2.DOMDocument.6.0 COM object and return the title, the link and the pubDate data. I've tried a variety of things using the visual studio object browser and the documentation online to look for ideas, but can't get anything working. I was wondering if someone out there can give me a hint...

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