#429 Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom
Book notes - Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom: Developers Guide to Syndicating News & Blogs, by Ben Hammersley. First published January 1, 2005.
Notes
The book I found most useful to get my head around the various ATOM and RSS standards back in the day.
Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 What Are RSS and Atom for?
- 1.2 A Short History of RSS and Atom
- 1.3 Why Syndicate Your Content?
- 1.4 Legal Implications
- 2 Using Feeds
- 2.1 Web-Based Applications
- 2.2 Desktop Applications
- 2.3 Other Cunning Techniques
- 2.4 Finding Feeds to Read
- 3 Feeds Without Programming
- 3.1 From Email
- 3.2 From a Search Engine
- 3.3 From Online Stores
- 4 RSS 2.0
- 4.1 Bringing Things Up to Date
- 4.2 The Basic Structure
- 4.3 Producing RSS 2.0 with Blogging Tools
- 4.4 Introducing Modules
- 4.5 Creating RSS 2.0 Feeds
- 5 RSS 1.0
- 5.1 Metadata in RSS 2.0
- 5.2 Resource Description Framework
- 5.3 RDF in XML
- 5.4 Introducing RSS 1.0
- 5.5 The Specification in Detail
- 5.6 Creating RSS 1.0 Feeds
- 6 RSS 1.0 Modules
- 6.1 Module Status
- 6.2 Support for Modules in Common Applications
- 6.3 Other RSS 1.0 Modules
- 7 The Atom Syndication Format
- 7.1 Introducing Atom
- 7.2 The Atom Entry Document in Detail
- 7.3 Producing Atom Feeds
- 8 Parsing and Using Feeds
- 8.1 Important Issues
- 8.2 JavaScript Display Parsers
- 8.3 Parsing for Programming
- 8.4 Using Regular Expressions
- 8.5 Using XSLT
- 8.6 Client-Side Inclusion
- 8.7 Server-Side Inclusion
- 9 Feeds in the Wild
- 9.1 Once You Have Created Your Simple RSS Feed
- 9.2 Publish and Subscribe
- 9.3 Rolling Your Own: LinkPimp PubSub
- 9.4 LinkpimpClient.pl
- 10 Unconventional Feeds
- 10.1 Apache Logfiles
- 10.2 Code TODOs to RSS
- 10.3 Daily Doonesbury
- 10.4 Amazon.com Wishlist to RSS
- 10.5 FedEx Parcel Tracker
- 10.6 Google to RSS with SOAP
- 10.7 Last-Modified Files
- 10.8 Installed Perl Modules
- 10.9 The W3C Validator to RSS
- 10.10 Game Statistics to Excel
- 10.11 Feeds by SMS
- 10.12 Podcasting Weather Forecasts
- 10.13 Having Amazon Produce Its Own RSS Feeds
- 10.14 Cross-Poster for Movable Type
- 11 Developing New Modules
- 11.1 Namespaces and Modules Within RSS 2.0 and Atom
- 11.2 Case Study: mod_Book
- 11.3 Extending Your Desktop Reader
- 11.4 Introducing AmphetaDesk
- A The XML You Need for RSS
- A.1 What Is XML?
- A.2 Anatomy of an XML Document
- A.3 Tools for Processing XML
- B Useful Sites and Software
- B.1 Uber Resources
- B.2 Specification Documents
- B.3 Mailing Lists
- B.4 Validators
- B.5 Desktop Readers
Source Code
Example sources are maintained on https://resources.oreilly.com/examples/9780596008819/.
Cloning to an example_source folder:
git clone https://resources.oreilly.com/examples/9780596008819/ example_source
Credits and References
- Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom, by Ben Hammersley