Extending RSSUTILS Tag Library...Anybody done this?

Question

I need to extend the RSSUTILS functionality by adding access to custom elements at the item level. In particular, our RSS feeds indicate a pubDate element at the Item level. The RSSUTILS library does not support this element, so I am contructing a custom Tag to get it done.
So far, so good...I have a new tag class that extends from com.sun.cpni.rss.taglib.ItemBaseTag and I have it plugged into the jar and TLD and it displays some static data when called by the JSP.
Here's my problem...how do I get at the specific item context within the feed? The other tags take "feedId" and "index", so naturally mine does as well. But what is the fastest way to open the feed and get at the item using this data?
Has anybody coded something similar or have some example code that will let me grab a new property from the current item (we are assuming, of course, that this tag will be called from within a ForEachItem tag)? I could probably pass in the feed url explicitky and then open it up and navigate myself...but this seems a bit inefficient. There must be some way to grab the current item context.
Anybody got a clue?

Answer 1

i just had tutorial last week about using customer tag library.
here is the snippet of program(successfully tested) which the tutor showed on tutorial.
<%@ taglib uri="http://www.servletsuite.com/servlets/xsqltag" prefix="sql" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/xsl-1.0" prefix="xsl" %>as u said, taglib-uri should be relative to ur application deployment and not the actual URL. but i dont understand why the above works fine? could somone explain here? thanx in advance.