[SandmanCL]

Every day I stare at the rss feed displaying news from x-scene. I know I can turn it off but I sorta like keeping it. Occasionally I see a headline that seems interesting, and I have to go to my pc to read the full article. It seems like an rss reader would be a logical extension of this feature: Make it possible to navigate do the rss feed and highlight headlines. By clicking the headline the full story is pulled down for the user to read.

[jimbo1960]

I was about to post the exact same thing!
Every time I see a news story I am interested in, I have to fire up my PC to read it.
Am I missing something or is this an excellent idea?

[xino]

his right! we should be able to check th X-Scene page
or maybe a script that will redirect to th rss feed page

by the way...can we add any RSS link to the xml? or do we need a website that is rss feed compatiable with XBMC?

[SandmanCL]

Any RSS feed will do. I currently use

http://news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories

which is the first from the list on this page

http://news.yahoo.com/rss

The file you need to edit is UserData/RssFeeds.xml

[SleepyP]

you should post over in the Python script section. I believe the main things you need are already implemented in Python. A script would simply need to get the RSS feed's current contents, then be able to scrape an article and display its content. You will need a scraper since there's no full web browser in XBMC right now and thus nothing that would be able to deal with the HTML returned by the article links.

[pike]

I've been "hounding" a developer to add this functionality for several months now, who knows, maybe one day he will get the time/feel like doing it