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Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom
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Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom

by Ben Hammersley
April 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
270 pages
7h 13m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Producing RSS 2.0 with Blogging Tools

The vast majority of RSS 2.0 feeds are produced by weblogging tools that use templates. The most popular of these is Movable Type, written by Ben and Mena Trott, which is freely available for personal use at http://www.movabletype.org. In order to discuss a few important implementation points, Example 4-3 shows a template for Movable Type that produces an RSS 2.0 feed.

Example 4-3. A Movable Type template for producing RSS 2.0
<?xml version="1.0"?> <rss version="2.0"> <channel> <title><$MTBlogName$></title> <link><$MTBlogURL$></link> <description><$MTBlogDescription$></description> <language>en-gb</language> <copyright>All content Public Domain</copyright> <managingEditor>ben@benhammersley.com</managingEditor> <webMaster>ben@benhammersley.com</webMaster> <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs> <category domain="http://www.dmoz.org">Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_ Science/Technical_Services/Cataloguing/Metadata/RDF/Applications/RSS/</category> <generator>Movable Type/2.5</generator> <lastBuildDate><$MTDate format="%a, %d %b %Y %I:%M:00 GMT"$></lastBuildDate> <ttl>60</ttl> <MTEntries lastn="15"> <item> <title><$MTEntryTitle encode_html="1"$></title> <description><$MTEntryExcerpt encode_html="1"$></description> <link><$MTEntryLink$></link> <comments><$MTEntryLink$></comments> <author><$MTEntryAuthorEmail$></author> <pubDate><$MTEntryDate format="%a, %d %b %Y %I:%M:00 GMT"$></pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">GUID:<$MTEntryLink$></g<$MTEntryDate ...
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