Transforms the XML of the feed into the standard format.

Syntax

HRESULT Normalize(      
    BSTR feedXmlIn,
    BSTR *feedXmlOut
);

Parameters

feedXmlIn

[in] BSTR that specifies the XML to be normalized.

feedXmlOut

[out, retval] BSTR that receives the resulting XML.

Return Value

Returns one of the following values:

S_OK	Success.
FEC_E_INVALIDMSXMLPROPERTY	Unable to set Microsoft XML (MSXML) second-level property.

Remarks

If this method fails with FEC_E_INVALIDMSXMLPROPERTY, ensure that a current release of the MSXML component is installed.

When a feed is downloaded, it is transformed into the Windows RSS Platform native format before processing. This format includes platform-specific extensions and is essentially a superset of all supported formats.

IFeedsManager::Normalize recognizes the following formats:

• Atom Syndication Format 0.3, 1.0
• Rich Site Summary (RSS) 0.91, 0.92
• RDF Site Summary (RSS) 1.0
• Really Simple Syndication (RSS) 2.0

See Also

IFeed::Merge