Information & Communication Technology

How to set up a basic RSS Feed

"RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. "- RSS, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1. Create an RSS feed. For an example look at the source of XML File (note: use of AEST - Australian Eastern Standard Time)
2. Create an XSL style sheet which transforms your XML to HTML - (Note - this how-to-rss.xml seems to crash Mozilla 1.4 erratically and you don't need a style sheet for later browsers and RSS feed readers)
3. Upload your XML (and optionally XSL Stylesheet) File to your website
4. View your XML file (if you use a stylesheet, you need to specify it in the XML file) in your browser
5. Validate your XML File - try feedvalidator.org
6. see media-release-2007-05-11.shtml for an example of
   • Advertising a feed by providing a text and RSS Graphic link to your XML File on your website
   • Displaying content of the feed on your webpage with an iframe
7. To find out what happens to your feed, see www.newsonfeeds.com/faq/aggregators

References

• Example study: How to transform XML into XHTML using XSLT.
• HTML iframe tag
• atomenabled.org
• Atom Publishing Protocol: Setting Up Yanel on Ubuntu
• Atom Publishing Format and Protocol (atompub)
• How to Set Up an RSS Feed to Syndicate Your Headlines
• Set Up a Simple Syndication Feed Using RSS
• feedvalidator.org
• Using RSS News Feeds
• Welcome to Syndic8.com
• Image:Feed-icon.svg, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Wikipedia:Syndication, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Title: RSS 2.0 XSL Template
• RSS, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia