March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 27m
English
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Creating RSS 1.0 Feeds
Despite the additional complexity of the RDF attributes, the methods for creating RSS 1.0 feeds are similar to those used to create RSS 0.9x feeds (discussed in Chapter 4).
Creating RSS 1.0 with Perl
The
XML::RSS module we used in Chapter 4 also works for RSS 1.0, with a few changes to
the scripts. Example 6-4 shows a sample script to
produce the feed shown in Example 6-5.
Example 6-4. Creating RSS 1.0 with Perl
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use XML::RSS; my $rss = new XML::RSS (version => '1.0'); $rss->channel(title => "The Title of the Feed", link => "http://www.oreilly.com/example/", description => "The description of the Feed", dc => { date => "2000-08-23T07:00+00:00", subject => "Linux Software", creator => "scoop@freshmeat.net", publisher => "scoop@freshmeat.net", rights => "Copyright 1999, Freshmeat.net", language => "en-us", }, ); $rss->image(title => "Oreilly", url => "http://meerkat.oreillynet.com/icons/meerkat-powered.jpg", link => "http://www.oreilly.com/example/", dc => { creator => "G. Raphics (graphics at freshmeat.net)", }, ); $rss->textinput(title => "Search", description => "Search the site", name => "query", link => "http://www.oreilly.com/example/search.cgi" ); $rss->add_item( title => "Example Entry 1", link => "http://www.oreilly.com/example/entry1", description => 'blah blah', dc => { subject => "Software", }, ); $rss->add_item( title => "Example Entry 2", link => "http://www.oreilly.com/example/entry2", description => 'blah blah' ); $rss->add_item( ...