RSS Feed Reader

Now a days RSS feeds are getting popular. Their are many software available in market that reads rss feeds. Here i have wrote a simple rss reader fuction that returns a list  of rss news of items.

 public List ReadXML(String fileName)
    {
        List itemList = null;
        try
        {
            XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(fileName);
            reader.WhitespaceHandling = WhitespaceHandling.None;
            itemList = new List();
            RssItem objItem = null;
            while (reader.Read())
            {
                bool isStart = reader.NodeType.Equals(XmlNodeType.Element);
                bool isEnd = reader.NodeType.Equals(XmlNodeType.EndElement);

                if (isEnd && reader.Name.Equals("item"))
                    objItem = null;

                else if (isStart && reader.Name.Equals("item"))
                {
                    objItem = new RssItem();
                    itemList.Add(objItem);
                }
                //read rss item tag and add into Hashtable
                else if (isStart && objItem != null)
                {
                    if (reader.Name.Equals("title"))
                    {
                        reader.Read();
                        objItem.Title = reader.Value;
                    }
                    else if (reader.Name.Equals("link"))
                    {
                        reader.Read();
                        objItem.Link = reader.Value;
                    }
                    else if (reader.Name.Equals("description"))
                    {
                        reader.Read();
                        objItem.Description = reader.Value;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e) { throw e; }
        return itemList;
    }

or we can use xml to linq also to parse xml,

public List ReadXML(String fileName)
    {
        // Loading from a file, you can also load from a stream
        XDocument response = XDocument.Load(fileName);
        IEnumerable results = from c in response.Descendants("item")
                                       select new RssItem
                                         {
                                             title = (c.Element("title") == null) ? string.Empty : c.Element("title").Value,
                                             link = (c.Element("link") == null) ? string.Empty : c.Element("link").Value,
                                             description = (c.Element("description") == null) ? string.Empty : c.Element("description").Value
                                         };
        return results.ToList();
    }

RssItem Class to store rss items

public class RssItem
{
public string Title {get ;set;}
public string Link {get ;set;}
public string Description {get ;set;}
}