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PAGE OVERVIEW
Most of us have heard about it: RSS, PodCasting, and whatever they came up with for news feeds. 
But WHAT is RSS really? And how can you set it up for your own website of blog?
Intro to RSS:
Reading RSS Feeds:
RSS Feeds - technical details:
Making RSS Feeds:
Getting out there:
Note: The RSS standard is a standard that seems to be under a constant development, so some things might change, disappear, or be added in the future! |
Items in detail
Like what we have seen with Channels, a similar list for Items. Note again that each element (as displayed in the example column) is enclosed by tags.
For example for a title element, we start with the open tag <title> and end with the close tag </title> (you could read "/" as "close").
| author |
Name and/or email of the writer of the item. |
<author>webmaster@weethet.nl (Hans Luijten)</author> |
category |
Define one or more categories this item belongs to. Multiple categories are allowed, even cross referencing. |
<category>Internet</category>
and/or
<category domain="http://www.weethet.nl/internet">Internet</category> |
| comments |
Link (URL) to a page for comments on this article. For example a page where visitors can post comments. |
<comments>http://www.weethet.nl/english/comments.php?articleid=123</comments> |
| description |
A brief description of the item. |
<description>If you want to know more about RSS and RSS Feeds, then this might be some easy reading for you. In this article we introduce you to what RSS is and how you can set it up for your own website.</description> |
| enclosure |
Describes a media object (like for example music). This tag has 3 attributes: url (location of the file - HTTP://), length (file length in bytes), and type (MIME type). This is for example used for Podcasting (distributing music etc using RSS). |
<enclosure url="http://www.weethet.nl/mysong.mp3" length="123456" type="audio/mpeg"> |
| guid |
A unique identifier for the item.
There are no rules for the format, as long as it is a string. News Aggregators may use this to determine if this is a know or new article. Optionally - when the guid is a unique link on the website - the value permalink can be aded and set to true. In that case a New Aggregator can use this to directly link to the article. |
<guid>http://www.weethet.nl/english/news.php?articleid=123</guid>
or
<guid permalink="true">http://www.weethet.nl/english/news.php?articleid=123</guid> |
| link |
The link (URL) to the article on the website where this article resides. |
<link>http://www.weethet.nl/english/internet_whatisrss.php</link> |
| pubDate |
The publication date for the content of this item. This can be daily, weekly, etc. Note that the format should comply to RFC822. Writing the year as 2 digits is accepted, but using a 4 digit notation is recommended. |
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:49:01 GMT</pubDate> |
| source |
The RSS channel where this item came from.
The main purpose of this link is to provide credits when forwarding an item from another feed. |
<source url="http://www.somewhere.com/link.xml">Somewhere</source> |
| title |
The title of this item. For examplem the headline of the original item. |
<title>Internet - RSS Introduction</title> |
Keep reading: RSS Feed Generators»
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