Parsing rss in groovy

rss_read.groovy

// define the url
def url = "http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&topic=h&output=rss"

def rss = new XmlSlurper().parse(url) 

println rss.channel.title

rss.channel.item.each {
    println "- ${it.title}"
}

only open and read from an URL directly if you trust that URL!