Output xml feed data into view

Question

I have an xml feed and i want to display it with a view. I have created a content type with the fields that are in the feed but how can i tell the view to get the data from this feed. I don't want to insert my feed data into the database. How can this be done programmatically? Maybe from the theme section in views? Maybe with some hooks like hook_views_data_alter? Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

So i solved it. In hook_views_pre_render i added something like:

if($view->name=='property_list'){ 
// ..got the xml , processed it
// and in the folowing array I added; of course field_address is an item in a content type
$view->result[$i]->field_field_address[0]['rendered']['#markup'] = $child->address;
// if i wanted the field to be a link, then altered this array item 
$view->result[$i]->field_field_address[0]['rendered']['#path']['path'] = 'property-detail?id='.$child->ID;  
}

The link pointed to another view where the detailed property was shown;