RSS News Reader script?

Question

After overcoming the stuff in "rookie needs help", I now have the entire site ready to go. I'm under an agreement not to show the content publicly until my client approves it, so apologies for not posting a link.
FWIW, this is a project directly related to the paperless electonic voting controversy, and the upcoming election (which we all anticipate to be an immense crisis - they should have solved this paper trail **** months ago), so all help is appreciated by more than just me - this one's for all of us. The site is likely to become a high-profile destination as November approaches.
I need to read a newsfeed from another related site. However, the ability to install code on the site I'm presently building is limited to what I can put into the immediate web. The site is hosted on an ASP (application service provider), and I'm uncertain what the sysadmin will welcome beyond that.
I have an ASP script that reads the newsfeed. It is demonstrated here:
http://www.gbdg.net/clay/index_vu.asp
What I am looking for, if such exists, is a similar JSP script. I am hoping this is simply a page I can install in my new site, and then execute via an include.
Could someone please direct me to such a script, assuming this is possible? Or point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Greg

Answer 1

Yikes!
I have a week before a mandatory launch, and this is one small aspect of what I need to do. I pray somone knows a script or such that I can download and install - the last thing I hope to do this week is to learn how to build a custom tag.
Just as this page http://www.gbdg.net/clay/index_vu.asp reads content from http://www.votersunite.org/news-rss/index.xml and displays it in a formatted table, I can just as easily cause that box of news items to appear on the home page of a site - that page would also have other content. What I am looking for is a script that reads the XML newsfeed and displays it on a web page.
Thanks
FYI, here is the ASP RSS newsreader script that causes the above page to work:
<%
Dim objXML
Dim objXSL
Dim objFSO
Dim strFile
Dim strFileName
Dim strXSL
Dim strURL
Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 8
Dim fso, f
' File extension
strFileName = "voters.xml"
' Format of current file e.g. 200160710cnn.xml
strFile = Year(Now) & Month(now) & Day(now) & Hour(now) & strFileName
' Style sheet
strXSL = "/includes/rss/rss.xsl"
' URL for XML Feed
strURL = "http://www.votersunite.org/news-rss/index.xml"
Set objFSO = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
' If a current file for this hour doesn't exist, then get a new one.
If Not (objFSO.FileExists(Server.MapPath(strFile))) Then
     Set objXML = Server.CreateObject ("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.4.0")
     objXML.Open "GET", strURL, False
     objXML.Send     
     xmlGet = objXML.responseText
     'strip out the crap to make it work...otherwise you will get a "The data necessary to complete this operation is not yet available." error.
     xmlGet = replace(xmlGet,"<!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC ""-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN"" ""http://www.scripting.com/dtd/rss-0_91.dtd"">","")     
     ' Create new cnn XML file
     Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
     Set f = fso.OpenTextFile(Server.MapPath(strFile), ForWriting, True)
     f.Write xmlGet
     f.Close
     Set objXML = Nothing
     ' Now delete any older cnn files
     Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(Server.MapPath("./"))
          For Each objFile in objFolder.Files
               If (objFile.Name = strFile) or Instr(objFile, strFileName)=0 then
               Else
                    objFSO.DeleteFile(Server.MapPath(objFile.Name))
               End If
          Next
End If
Set objFSO = nothing
' Now load XML and XSL documents
Set objXML = server.createobject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.4.0")
Set objXSL = server.createobject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.4.0")
objXML.load(Server.MapPath(strFile))
objXSL.load(Server.MapPath(strXSL))
Response.Write objXML.transformNode(objXSL)
Set objXML = Nothing
Set objXSL = Nothing
%>
RSS.xsl:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
- <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
- <xsl:template match="/">
- <xsl:for-each select="rss/channel/item">
- <xsl:if test="position() < 8">
- <a>
- <xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="link" />
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="title" />
</a>
- <xsl:if test="pubdate!=/">
<xsl:value-of select="pubdate" />
</xsl:if>
<img src="/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="10" height="6" border="0" />
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>