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+package io.legado.app.model.rss
+
+import io.legado.app.constant.RSSKeywords
+import io.legado.app.data.entities.RssArticle
+import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser
+import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException
+import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserFactory
+import java.io.IOException
+import java.io.StringReader
+
+object CoreXMLParser {
+
+    @Throws(XmlPullParserException::class, IOException::class)
+    fun parseXML(xml: String): MutableList<RssArticle> {
+
+        val articleList = mutableListOf<RssArticle>()
+        var currentArticle = RssArticle()
+
+        val factory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance()
+        factory.isNamespaceAware = false
+
+        val xmlPullParser = factory.newPullParser()
+        xmlPullParser.setInput(StringReader(xml))
+
+        // A flag just to be sure of the correct parsing
+        var insideItem = false
+
+        var eventType = xmlPullParser.eventType
+
+        // Start parsing the xml
+        while (eventType != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT) {
+
+            // Start parsing the item
+            if (eventType == XmlPullParser.START_TAG) {
+                if (xmlPullParser.name.equals(RSSKeywords.RSS_ITEM, ignoreCase = true)) {
+                    insideItem = true
+
+                } else if (xmlPullParser.name.equals(
+                        RSSKeywords.RSS_ITEM_TITLE,
+                        ignoreCase = true
+                    )
+                ) {
+                    if (insideItem) {
+                        currentArticle.title = xmlPullParser.nextText().trim()
+                    }
+
+                } else if (xmlPullParser.name.equals(
+                        RSSKeywords.RSS_ITEM_LINK,
+                        ignoreCase = true
+                    )
+                ) {
+                    if (insideItem) {
+                        currentArticle.link = xmlPullParser.nextText().trim()
+                    }
+
+                } else if (xmlPullParser.name.equals(
+                        RSSKeywords.RSS_ITEM_AUTHOR,
+                        ignoreCase = true
+                    )
+                ) {
+                    if (insideItem) {
+                        currentArticle.author = xmlPullParser.nextText().trim()
+                    }
+
+                } else if (xmlPullParser.name.equals(
+                        RSSKeywords.RSS_ITEM_CATEGORY,
+                        ignoreCase = true
+                    )
+                ) {
+                    if (insideItem) {
+                        currentArticle.categories.add(xmlPullParser.nextText().trim())
+                    }
+
+                } else if (xmlPullParser.name.equals(
+                        RSSKeywords.RSS_ITEM_THUMBNAIL,
+                        ignoreCase = true
+                    )
+                ) {
+                    if (insideItem) {
+                        currentArticle.image =
+                            xmlPullParser.getAttributeValue(null, RSSKeywords.RSS_ITEM_URL)
+                    }
+
+                } else if (xmlPullParser.name.equals(
+                        RSSKeywords.RSS_ITEM_ENCLOSURE,
+                        ignoreCase = true
+                    )
+                ) {
+                    if (insideItem) {
+                        val type = xmlPullParser.getAttributeValue(null, RSSKeywords.RSS_ITEM_TYPE)
+                        if (type != null && type.contains("image/")) {
+                            currentArticle.image =
+                                xmlPullParser.getAttributeValue(null, RSSKeywords.RSS_ITEM_URL)
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                } else if (xmlPullParser.name.equals(
+                        RSSKeywords.RSS_ITEM_DESCRIPTION,
+                        ignoreCase = true
+                    )
+                ) {
+                    if (insideItem) {
+                        val description = xmlPullParser.nextText()
+                        currentArticle.description = description.trim()
+                        if (currentArticle.image == null) {
+                            currentArticle.image = getImageUrl(description)
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                } else if (xmlPullParser.name.equals(
+                        RSSKeywords.RSS_ITEM_CONTENT,
+                        ignoreCase = true
+                    )
+                ) {
+                    if (insideItem) {
+                        val content = xmlPullParser.nextText().trim()
+                        currentArticle.content = content
+                        if (currentArticle.image == null) {
+                            currentArticle.image = getImageUrl(content)
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                } else if (xmlPullParser.name.equals(
+                        RSSKeywords.RSS_ITEM_PUB_DATE,
+                        ignoreCase = true
+                    )
+                ) {
+                    if (insideItem) {
+                        val nextTokenType = xmlPullParser.next()
+                        if (nextTokenType == XmlPullParser.TEXT) {
+                            currentArticle.pubDate = xmlPullParser.text.trim()
+                        }
+                        // Skip to be able to find date inside 'tag' tag
+                        continue
+                    }
+                } else if (xmlPullParser.name.equals(
+                        RSSKeywords.RSS_ITEM_TIME,
+                        ignoreCase = true
+                    )
+                ) {
+                    if (insideItem) {
+                        currentArticle.pubDate = xmlPullParser.nextText()
+                    }
+                } else if (xmlPullParser.name.equals(
+                        RSSKeywords.RSS_ITEM_GUID,
+                        ignoreCase = true
+                    )
+                ) {
+                    if (insideItem) {
+                        currentArticle.guid = xmlPullParser.nextText().trim()
+                    }
+                }
+            } else if (eventType == XmlPullParser.END_TAG && xmlPullParser.name.equals(
+                    "item",
+                    ignoreCase = true
+                )
+            ) {
+                // The item is correctly parsed
+                insideItem = false
+                articleList.add(currentArticle)
+                currentArticle = RssArticle()
+            }
+            eventType = xmlPullParser.next()
+        }
+        return articleList
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Finds the first img tag and get the src as featured image
+     *
+     * @param input The content in which to search for the tag
+     * @return The url, if there is one
+     */
+    private fun getImageUrl(input: String): String? {
+
+        var url: String? = null
+        val patternImg = "(<img .*?>)".toPattern()
+        val matcherImg = patternImg.matcher(input)
+        if (matcherImg.find()) {
+            val imgTag = matcherImg.group(1)
+            val patternLink = "src\\s*=\\s*\"(.+?)\"".toPattern()
+            val matcherLink = patternLink.matcher(imgTag)
+            if (matcherLink.find()) {
+                url = matcherLink.group(1).trim()
+            }
+        }
+        return url
+    }
+}
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