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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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Game Statistics to Excel

Halo 2, a game for the XBox console, can be played as a multiplayer online game over the XBox-Live network. If you do this, your players statistics become available online as an RSS 2.0 feed. Example 10-1 shows an example of such a feed, courtesy of player “nedrichards.”

Example 10-1. An RSS 2.0 feed from Halo 2
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <rss version="2.0"> <channel> <title>nedrichards's recent games</title> <link>http://www.bungie.net/stats</link> <description>Halo2 games played recently (courtesy of Bungie.Net)</description> <language>en-us</language> <pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:16:54 GMT</pubDate> <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs> <generator>BungieTest RSS Generator</generator> <webMaster>webmaster@bungie.net</webMaster> <item> <title>Arranged Game: Rockets on Headlong</title> <link>http://bungie.net/stats/gamestats.aspx?gameid=30084649&player=nedrichards</link> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:49:33 GMT</pubDate> <guid>http://bungie.net/stats/gamestats.aspx?gameid=30084649&player=nedrichards</guid> <description>Game played at Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:49:33 GMT<br/><br/>Playlist: Arranged Game<br/>Rockets on Headlong<br/><br/><b>Gamertag (Team): Score, Kills, Deaths, Assists</b><br/>Evil Ted Hed (4): 25, 25, 14, 1<br/>Cranium Oxide (0): 21, 21, 12, 2<br/>nedrichards (2): 15, 15, 25, 1<br/>smokingdrum (3): 12, 12, 18, 2<br/>Frizby (1): 11, 11, 24, 1<br/></description> </item> <item> <title>Team Skirmish: 1 Flag CTF Fast on Burial Mounds</title> ...
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