Create an RSS 1.0 Document
Create an RSS 1.0 document using a template or with Java.
RSS 1.0 is a branch from RSS 0.91 that incorporates elements from the W3C’s Resource Description Framework or RDF (http://www.w3.org/RDF/). Some folks didn’t particularly like this branch to RDF because they saw it as too complex. Nevertheless, RSS 1.0 is now a popular format for RSS documents, running a close second to RSS 0.91, according to http://www.syndic8.com/stats.php?Section=rss#RSSVersion.
Following is a minimal example of an RSS 1.0 document, available in the file archive as wyeast.rss and at http://www.wyeast.net/wyeast.rss:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rdf:RDF xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22 -rdf-syntax-ns#"> <channel rdf:about="http://www.wyeast.net/wyeast.rss"> <title>Wy'east Communications</title> <link>http://www.wyeast.net</link> <description>Wy'east Communications is an XML consultancy.</description> <items> <rdf:Seq> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.wyeast.net/wyeast.html"/> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> <item rdf:about="http://www.wyeast.net/wyeast.html"> <title>Legend of Wy'east</title> <link>http://www.wyeast.net/wyeast.html</link> <description>The Native American story behind the name Wy'east.</description> </item> </rdf:RDF>
The
rdf:RDF
element from
the RDF namespace (http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#) is the document element. This element
must have exactly one channel
child and one or
more item
children (these ...
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