Preserve WireFeed

WireFeed is the base class for all RSS and Atom specific feed classes. To preserve it while parsing, set the property preserveWireFeed of SyndFeedInput to true.

File file = new File("feed.xml");

SyndFeedInput input = new SyndFeedInput();
input.setPreserveWireFeed(true);
SyndFeed syndFeed = input.build(file);

WireFeed wireFeed = syndFeed.originalWireFeed();

Note

SyndFeedInput supports additional input types. Please take a look at the Javadoc.

Atom entries and RSS items are also available from SyndEntry objects if the WireFeed is preserved:

for (SyndEntry syndEntry : syndFeed.getEntries()) {

    Object wireEntry = syndEntry.getWireEntry();

    if (wireEntry != null) {

        if (wireEntry instanceof Entry) {

            Entry entry = (Entry) wireEntry;
            // Atom specific code

        } else if (wireEntry instanceof Item) {

            Item item = (Item) wireEntry;
            // RSS specific code

        }

    }

}