Muthukumar Rajamani : Interaction Designer/Manager, Bangalore

Structure of a RSS Feed

Sample RSS 2.0 Feed

<rss version="2.0"><br /> <channel></p> <link>http://webdesign.about.com/rss2.0feed/<br /> <description>An example of a simple RSS feed. This is the description of the feed itself, not an item.</description></p> <p><item></p> <link>http://webdesign.about.com/rss2.0feed/entry.html<br /> <description>This is the text that will appear in the feedreaders. It describes the post itself, not the entire feed.</description><br /> <guid>http://webdesign.about.com/rss2.0feed/entry.html</guid> </link></item></p> </link></channel><br /> </rss><br />

How to Build an RSS File from Scratch

Let them know that …

this is an XML File

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><br />

this is an RSS 2.0 document

<rss version="2.0"><br /> </rss><br />

with a channel

<channel><br /> </channel><br />

containing a <title>, <link> & a <description>

</p> <link>http://webdesign.about.com/rss2.0feed/ <p><description>An example of a simple RSS feed. This is the description of the feed itself, not an item.</description> </link>

and an <item>, item <title>, item <link>, item <description>

<item></p> <link>http://webdesign.about.com/rss2.0feed/entry.html <p><description>This is the text that will appear in the feedreaders. It describes the post itself, not the entire feed.</description></p> <p><guid>http://webdesign.about.com/rss2.0feed/entry.html</guid></p> </link></item>

close necessary tags<br />

Related Links

1. What is RSS?
2. Validate Your RSS Feed
3. How to Promote Your RSS Feed