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Last modified December 08 2008 17:37:58
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RSS Feed |
News Syndication with niemueller.de |
What is an RSS feed? What is RSS?
RSS is an abbreviation for "Really Simple Syndication". It defines a standard (more or less)
to export news headlines (or some kind of headlines) to the public. These headlines
are linked to a page with the whole story or more information about the mentioned topic.
RSS is based on RDF, which is a framework for
resource description. RSS is a special dialect of RDF for news syndication.
Currently there are several versions of RSS in use.
RSS 1.0 and
RSS 2.0 are
pretty good specified. The version I am using is
RSS 0.9
which is a pretty simple form and very easy to create and parse. It is also used by sites
like Freshmeat.
What is in the feed
The niemueller.de RSS feed contains one channel. You can define whether you want to
include news, blog entries or both (see below
for more details). The channel will contain the five most recent entries from the
selected news sources. So if you enable bot you will get ten headlines.
Validity
It is hard to get valid XML and a valid feed at the same time as it seems. But after
working around all the glitches it is finally certified with the
Feed Validator and
W3C Markup Validation Service.
Usage
The RSS feed is located at niemueller.de/rss.php and accepts one
parameter: channel=(news|blog|all). If channel is "news", only the news entries will be
shown, if it is set to "blog" then only the blog entries are shown. If you set it to
"all" or do not define it at all both are shown with a maximum of five entries per
source.
Examples:
/rss.php?channel=news - news entries only
/rss.php?channel=news - blog entries only
/rss.php - show entries of both sources
RSS Feed
Get the feed:
RSS
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