9 Best jQuery Feed Plugins

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1. jQuery Google Feed Plugin

Google Feed Plugin is a pretty cool thing as it facilitates feed mashups by providing the server component. This means that developers can easily mash feeds on the client by simply including Google’s new API script. And Google has provided a nice Developer’s Guide which shows how to get started.

2. XSLT Plugin

This is a jQuery Plugin for Google’s AJAXSLT. It gives you the ability to transform XML/XSL from JavaScript. AJAXSLT is a parser itself, the library does not depend on your browser being able to do XSL transforms. The plugin also provides functionality to load XML/XSL through $.ajax() calls and transform them.

3. RSS/Atom Feed Parser Plugin

jFeed currently parses RSS 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, 2.0 and Atom 1.0 feeds.

4. jQuery Taconite – Multiple DOM Updates

The jQuery Taconite Plugin allows you to easily make multiple DOM updates using the results of a single AJAX call. It processes an XML command document that contain instructions for updating the DOM.

5. jQuery XSL Transform

A jQuery wrapper for Sarissa, providing the ability to replace any element on the fly (using the browser’s built-in XSLT engine) with the results from an XSLT transformation of an XML document. For example: $('your-selector-here').getTransform('path-to-xsl.xsl','path-to-xml.xml');.

6. XMLObjectifier

This small and fast utility converts an XML file fetched through $.ajax to a JavaScript Object, completely eliminating a need to use DOM to extract data. All attributes and values are accessible using dot (.) notation. Besides simplifying the way you access data you can also sort and traverse nodes prior further processing. This component can be easily used to write a SOAP or RSS client.

7. XML-driven Vertical News Scroller Script using HTML and jQuery: vScroller

Adding scrolling content to your website or blog makes much sense – it allows you display latest news, promotions, product updates, announcements, upcoming events, calendar items and much more in a limited space. It also allows you to add dynamic content to otherwise static web pages.

8. jQuery Lifestream

Show a stream of your online activity. The easiest way to get started is to create your own lifestream.

9. RSS Driven Dynamic jQuery News Slider Plugin: Dynamic News

Dynamic News is a jQuery news slider plugin that makes news integration to your web site very easy. Dynamic News plugin supports two ways to add news data. You can either enter your news via HTML markups manually or let Dynamic News plugin load the news from rss feed and build the necessary HTML markups automatically. One cool feature of Dynamic News slider plugin is the news preview or news summary pane, hovering over news headline will show news summary in a tool tip like pop up, which also provides link to news detail page. All the features of Dynamic News slider plugin are configurable. Its up to you whether you want to display news preview pane, display control bar, auto hide control bar or keep it always visible.

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