Tuesday, September 2, 2008

RSS Feeds


HOW TO USED RSS?


RSS means Really Simple Syndication. RSS is a special format based on XML, which was first used to unite headers with web content. In fact, RSS feeds are XML files containing data according to the RSS specification, and usually located on a website.

As soon as an RSS feed appears in the Internet, any connected computer can access it. In order for the user to be able to use the RSS feed, he needs special software or services called readers or aggregators.

Tags to use to write a RSS file

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html

Once your feed is online you can check is it is valid by using :

http://feedvalidator.org/

As an example you can see the RSS feeds of lemonde.fr

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/rss/0,48-0,1-0,0.html