Day 19. Reading and Writing RSS Feeds
Today, you work with Extensible Markup Language (XML), a formatting standard that enables data to be completely portable.
You’ll explore XML in the following ways:
• Representing data as XML
• Discovering why XML is a useful way to store data
• Using XML to publish web content
• Reading and writing XML data
The XML format employed throughout the day is Really Simple Syndication (RSS), a popular way to publish web content and share information on site updates. RSS has been adopted by millions of sites.
Using XML
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