September 2005
Beginner
576 pages
13h 6m
English
There are hundreds of XML dialects out there representing data in a platform- independent, software-independent manner. One of the most popular is RSS, a format for sharing headlines and links from online news sites, weblogs, and other sources of information.
RSS makes web content available in XML form, perfect for reading in software, in web-accessible files called feeds. There are RSS readers called news aggregators that have been adopted by several million information junkies to track all of their favorite websites. There also are web applications that collect and share RSS items.
The hard-working Builder class in the nu.xom package can load XML over the Internet from any URL:
String rssUrl = "http://search.csmonitor.com/rss/top.rss"; ...
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