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Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom

By Ben Hammersley
First Edition April 2005
Pages: 270
ISBN 10: 0-596-00881-3 | ISBN 13: 9780596008819

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This step-by-step guide offers bloggers, web developers, and programmers an understanding of content syndication and the technologies that make it possible. It highlights all the new features of RSS 2.0, and offers complete coverage of its rival technology, Atom. Confidently teaches you how to produce your own data feeds to syndicate news and blogs.
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Perhaps the most explosive technological trend over the past two years has been blogging. As a matter of fact, it's been reported that the number of blogs during that time has grown from 100,000 to 4.8 million-with no end to this growth in sight. What's the technology that makes blogging tick? The answer is RSS--a format that allows bloggers to offer XML-based feeds of their content. It's also the same technology that's incorporated into the websites of media outlets so they can offer material (headlines, links, articles, etc.) syndicated by other sites. As the main technology behind this rapidly growing field of content syndication, RSS is constantly evolving to keep pace with worldwide demand. That's where Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom steps in. It provides bloggers, web developers, and programmers with a thorough explanation of syndication in general and the most popular technologies used to develop feeds. This book not only highlights all the new features of RSS 2.0-the most recent RSS specification-but also offers complete coverage of its close second in the XML-feed arena, Atom. The book has been exhaustively revised to explain:

metadata interpretation
the different forms of content syndication
the increasing use of web services
how to use popular RSS news aggregators on the market

After an introduction that examines Internet content syndication in general (its purpose, limitations, and traditions), this step-by-step guide tackles various RSS and Atom vocabularies, as well as techniques for applying syndication to problems beyond news feeds. Most importantly, it gives you a firm handle on how to create your own feeds, and consume or combine other feeds. If you're interested in producing your own content feed, Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom is the one book you'll want in hand.

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First Edition: April 2005
ISBN: 0-596-00881-3
Pages: 270

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"If you have your own website (personal or business) or run a blog, it is worth reading RSS and Atom--even if the code examples are over your head--for the insights it provides into what technology is used for syndicated feeds and how it is used, and alternative ways of doing things."
-- Major Keary, PC Update

"Want to make a feed out of a Google search item? Done. Want to make a feed out of your Amazon.com wish list? Done. There are just so many nuggets of knowledge in this book, it is hard to point out the best part. There are so many angles to the world of syndication and Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom has just about every inch covered."
Mitch Keeler, Lockergnome , May 2005

"Overall, the book offers a thorough presentation of RSS and Atom in an easy to understand manner. Using a conversational style of writing, the author manages to make the reader feel comfortable with a subject that can sometimes seem difficult. If you want to learn how to create your own RSS and Atom feeds, or just want to get up to speed with the latest technology, Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom will prove to be a valuable asset to your library."
--Lee Underwood, WebReference.com, June 2005

"As with most O'Reilly books, this is the definitive book on the subject, written by a professional programmer for professional programmers. It's all you need on the subject."
--John Matlock, Books-On-Line, May 2005

"Overall, a good treatment of an important technology in today's internet environment, and a book that will be useful as you start to add syndication into your applications."
--Thomas "Duffbert" Duff, Amazon.com, May 2005

"Publishing on the Internet is evolving. I picked this book up to learn the tools and practices necessary to develop content feeds for websites. RSS and Atom are the foundation of this technology... Overall, I liked this book. This book is targeted to developers, and it provided me with the information that I was looking for to add content syndication to my web applications."
--Blair Kennedy, Amazon.com, May 2005

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