RSS Feed::How To Create

Everyday more and more websites, news services and blogs are adding RSS content. RSS is a method of syndicating content.The concept of aggregating content in one central location or repository is very appealing. Consumers have become tired of push technology, RSS allows users the flexibility to regain control of their content. RSS feed creators provide content without forcing it on consumers. In fact with RSS consumers are able to choose the content they wish to view.

RSS feeds contain what are referred to as "items". The items are usually connected in some way and contain a common theme or other similarity.

Each item contains:

* title
* description
* link

The title and description should be written to describe the content and the link should reference the webpage that contains that actual content.

Like html, the xml file uses open and close tags to designate the title, description and link. Tags are enclosed in brackets <>, like standard html and the close tag contains a forward slash /.
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The following is what an item in a xml file looks like:

title : The Title Goes Here /title
descritpion: The description goes here /description
link :http://www.linkgoeshere.com /link

As I mentioned earlier, an RSS feeds contains items and like the tags above, an open and close tag is used to distinguish between items.

item
title:The Title Goes Here /title
descritpion: The description goes here /description
link : http://www.linkgoeshere.com /link
/item

item:
title: Another Title Goes Here /title
descritpion: Another description goes here /description
link: http://www.anotherlinkgoeshere.com /link
/item

Now an RSS Feed is a series of items, these items are chained together to create what is called a "Channel".

The Channel appears at the top of the file and tells people how the items relate to each other. Like items channels use title, description and link tags to describe its content. The open channel tag occurs before the first item and the close tag /channel: occurs after the last item.

channel:
title: The Channel Title Goes Here /title
description: The explanation of how the items are related goes here /description
link: http://www.directoryoflinksgohere /link

item:
title: The Title Goes Here /title
descritpion:The description goes here /description
link:http://www.linkgoeshere.com /link
/item

item
title: Another Title Goes Here /title
descritpion :Another description goes here /description
link:http://www.anotherlinkgoeshere.com /link
/item

/channel:

Finally you will need to designate the file by indicating it is an XML file by inserting xml and rss defining tags at the beginning and at the very end.

?xml version="1.0"?
rss version="2.0"
channel

title: The Channel Title Goes Here /title
description: The explanation of how the items are related goes here /description
link:http://www.directoryoflinksgohere /link

item:
title: The Title Goes Here /title
descritpion: The description goes here /description
link : http://www.linkgoeshere.com /link
/item

item :
title: Another Title Goes Here /title
descritpion: Another description goes here /description
link: http://www.anotherlinkgoeshere.com /link
/item

/channel
/rss

When you save the file be sure to save it as an xml file.
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