Why is this RSS Feed not working?

Question

Here is the code I used on the RSS Parser file. Yet when I
open the flash viewer no changes have been made from the original
example I pulled this from. Sorry, the code is listed twice. The
second version is when I used "attach code" and I can't seem to
delete the original cut & paste.
Mind you, I'm just getting through the latter stages of a
beginner Flash course, so if possible, please keep explanations
relatively understandable to a newbie. :)
package com.example.programmingas3.rssViewer {
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.events.*;
* RSSParser includes methods for
* converting RSS XML data into HTML text.
public class RSSParser extends EventDispatcher {
* The text to use as the title of the application
public var sampleTitle:String = "Raw Story: Breaking News";
* The text to use as the description of the application
public var sampleDescription:String = "Bringing you the news
the supposed liberal media won't";
* The URL of the source RSS data. Alternate URLs are listed
as comments.
* Note that in order to use RSS data from a network address,
the source server
* needs to impliment a cross-domain policy file. For
details, see the "Flash Player
* Security" chapter in the Programming ActionScript 3.0
book.
public var url:String = "
http://feeds.feedburner.com/rawstory/gKpz"
//"./RSSData/ak.rss"
http://feeds.feedburner.com/rawstory/gKpz"
* The XML object containing the source RSS data
public var rssXML:XML;
* The string that will contain the converted HTML version of
the RSS topic data.
public var rssOutput:String;
* The title of the RSS feed.
public var rssTitle:String;
* Used to load RSS data.
private var myLoader:URLLoader;
* An event used to signal that the HTML version of the RSS
data has been written.
private var dataWritten:Event;
* Initiates loading of the RSS data.
public function RSSParser() {
var rssXMLURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
myLoader = new URLLoader(rssXMLURL);
myLoader.addEventListener("complete", xmlLoaded);
* Invoked when the RSS data is loaded. This method parses
through the
* XML data by looping through each item element in the XML,
extracting
* the title description and link elements in the item
element.
* The buildHTML() method returns HTML in the form of an
XMLList
* object, which is converted to the rssOutput string.
* The channel.title property of the rssXML is used as the
* title for the RSS feed. When the method is complete, it
dispatches
* a dataWritten event, which notifies the host application
of the
* completion.
public function xmlLoaded(evtObj:Event):void {
rssXML = XML(myLoader.data);
var outXML:XMLList = new XMLList();
/* The source RSS data may or may not use a namespace to
define
* its content.
if (rssXML.namespace("") != undefined) {
default xml namespace = rssXML.namespace("");
for each (var item:XML in rssXML..item) {
var itemTitle:String = item.title.toString();
var itemDescription:String = item.description.toString();
var itemLink:String = item.link.toString();
outXML += buildItemHTML(itemTitle,
itemDescription,
itemLink);
XML.prettyPrinting = false;
rssOutput = outXML.toXMLString();
trace(rssOutput);
rssTitle = rssXML.channel.title.toString();
dataWritten = new Event("dataWritten", true);
dispatchEvent(dataWritten);
* Builds an XMLList object that represents a segment of HTML
code,
* based on the three string parameters that define the
title, description,
* and link information from an RSS item.
* The return text is of the following form:
* <p>itemDescription<br/><a
href="link"><font
color="#008000">More...</font></a></p>
private function buildItemHTML(itemTitle:String,
itemDescription:String,
itemLink:String):XMLList {
default xml namespace = new Namespace();
var body:XMLList = new XMLList();
body += new XML("<b>" + itemTitle + "</b>");
var p:XML = new XML("<p>" + itemDescription +
"</p>");
var link:XML = <a></a>;
link.@href = itemLink; // <link
href="itemLinkString"></link>
link.font.@color = "#008000"; // <font
color="#008000"></font></a>
// 0x008000 = green
link.font = "More...";
p.appendChild(<br/>);
p.appendChild(link);
body += p;
return body;

Answer 1

Please when you have a question post the feed URL, not its contents. For reference, your feed is at
http://gamersscope.emachine08.com/podcast.rss
You have failed to close the category tag, which renders the feed unreadable. You need to add a line as here:
<itunes:category text="Games &amp; Hobbies">
<itunes:category text="Video Games"/>
</itunes:category>
<itunes:owner>
Though it doesn't affect the validity of the feed, your link tag:
<link>http://gamersscope.emachine08.com</link>
leads to a server directory, not a page.