public class RSSHandler extends DefaultHandler {

    // Feed and Article objects to use for temporary storage
    private Article currentArticle = new Article();
    private List
 articleList = new ArrayList
();

    // Number of articles added so far
    private int articlesAdded = 0;

    // Number of articles to download
    private static final int ARTICLES_LIMIT = 15;
   
    //Current characters being accumulated
    StringBuffer chars = new StringBuffer();
    /**
     * THIS IS A NEW BUFFER SPECIFICALLY FOR DESCRIPTION
    **/
    StringBuffer descriptionChars = new StringBuffer();
    boolean processingDescription = false;

   
    /*
     * This method is called everytime a start element is found (an opening XML marker)
     * here we always reset the characters StringBuffer as we are only currently interested
     * in the the text values stored at leaf nodes
     *
     * (non-Javadoc)
     * @see org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler#startElement(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, org.xml.sax.Attributes)
     */
    public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes atts) {
        chars = new StringBuffer();
       
        //IF DESCRIPTION THEN SET FLAG TO START PROCESSING SPECIFIC BUFFER
        if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("description"))
        {
            descriptionChars = new StringBuffer();
            processingDescription = true;
        }
    }



    /*
     * This method is called everytime an end element is found (a closing XML marker)
     * here we check what element is being closed, if it is a relevant leaf node that we are
     * checking, such as Title, then we get the characters we have accumulated in the StringBuffer
     * and set the current Article's title to the value
     *
     * If this is closing the "Item", it means it is the end of the article, so we add that to the list
     * and then reset our Article object for the next one on the stream
     *
     *
     * (non-Javadoc)
     * @see org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler#endElement(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String)
     */
    public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName) throws SAXException {

        if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("title"))
        {
            Log.d("LOGGING RSS XML", "Setting article title: " + chars.toString());
            currentArticle.setTitle(chars.toString());

        }
        else if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("description"))
        {
            /**
             * ALSO PROCESS HERE THE DECRIPTION SPECIFIC STRING BUFFER
             **/
            Log.d("LOGGING RSS XML", "Setting article description: " + descriptionChars.toString());
            currentArticle.setDescription(descriptionChars.toString());
           
            //ALSO SET DESCRIPTION FLAG TO FALSE
            processingDescription = false;
        }
        else if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("pubDate"))
        {
            Log.d("LOGGING RSS XML", "Setting article published date: " + chars.toString());
            currentArticle.setPubDate(chars.toString());
        }
        else if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("encoded"))
        {
            Log.d("LOGGING RSS XML", "Setting article content: " + chars.toString());
            currentArticle.setEncodedContent(chars.toString());
        }
        else if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("item"))
        {

        }
        /**
         * THIS IS NEW TO HANDLE IMAGE TAG
        **/
        else if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("img"))
        {
            Log.d("LOGGING RSS XML", "Setting article description image: " + chars.toString());
            currentArticle.setDescription(chars.toString());
        }
        else if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("link"))
        {
            try {
                Log.d("LOGGING RSS XML", "Setting article link url: " + chars.toString());
                currentArticle.setUrl(new URL(chars.toString()));
            } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
                Log.e("RSA Error", e.getMessage());
            }

        }




        // Check if looking for article, and if article is complete
        if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("item")) {

            articleList.add(currentArticle);
           
            currentArticle = new Article();

            // Lets check if we've hit our limit on number of articles
            articlesAdded++;
            if (articlesAdded >= ARTICLES_LIMIT)
            {
                throw new SAXException();
            }
        }
    }
   
   



    /*
     * This method is called when characters are found in between XML markers, however, there is no
     * guarante that this will be called at the end of the node, or that it will be called only once
     * , so we just accumulate these and then deal with them in endElement() to be sure we have all the
     * text
     *
     * (non-Javadoc)
     * @see org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler#characters(char[], int, int)
     */
    public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length) {
        chars.append(new String(ch, start, length));
        if (processingDescription){
            descriptionChars.append(new String(ch, start, length));
        }
    }





    /**
     * This is the entry point to the parser and creates the feed to be parsed
     *
     * @param feedUrl
     * @return
     */
    public List
 getLatestArticles(String feedUrl) {
        URL url = null;
        try {

            SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
            SAXParser sp = spf.newSAXParser();
            XMLReader xr = sp.getXMLReader();

            url = new URL(feedUrl);
           
            xr.setContentHandler(this);
            xr.parse(new InputSource(url.openStream()));


        } catch (IOException e) {
            Log.e("RSS Handler IO", e.getMessage() + " >> " + e.toString());
        } catch (SAXException e) {
            Log.e("RSS Handler SAX", e.toString());
        } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
            Log.e("RSS Handler Parser Config", e.toString());
        }
       
        return articleList;
    }

}