This is from my article writing. I used RSS to transport order data. The consumer is based on the IE7 RSS API. If you have never done this before read this blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/archive/2006/06/08/621623.aspx
First i changed the RSS format to use namespace and prefix elements.
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:Orders="http://ppedv.com/Orders">
<channel>
<item>
<description>Bestellung 29.Sept.2002
</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2002 19:59:01 GMT</pubDate>
<Orders:Anzahl>1</Orders:Anzahl>
<Orders:Preis>23</Orders:Preis>
</item>
...
Then i created a winforms application which uses the RSS API. I hooked into the Itemcount event sink.
Sub NeueOrders(ByVal path As String, ByVal anz As Integer) Handles RSSevents.FeedItemCountChanged
In this i iterate thorugh all items. The standard attribute like title or link are propertys of item. But not the extend my ones. I copy the raw xml data from item to xmldocument. To use prefix in xpath expression (selectsinglenode) you have to inlcude a xmlnamespace Manager
Dim a As String = tmpItem.Xml(FEEDS_XML_INCLUDE_FLAGS.FXIF_CF_EXTENSIONS)
Dim xa As New Xml.XmlDocument
xa.LoadXml(a)
Dim nsMgr As New Xml.XmlNamespaceManager(xa.NameTable)
nsMgr.AddNamespace("Orders", "http://ppedv.com/Orders")
anzahl = xa.SelectSingleNode("item/Orders:Anzahl", nsMgr).InnerText
Done!