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Content Syndication with RSS
Product Description
Originally developed by Netscape in 1999, RSS (which can stand for RDF Site Summary, Rich Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based format that allows web developers to describe and syndicate web site content. Content Syndication with RSS offers webloggers, developers, and the programmers who support them a thorough explanation of syndication in general and RSS in particular. Written for web developers who want to offer XML-based feeds of their content, as well as developers who want to use the content that other people are syndicating, the book explores and explains metadata interpretation, different forms of content syndication, and the increasing use of web services in this field. Topics covered in the book include:
- Creating XML syndication feeds with RSS 0.9x and 2.0
- Beyond headlines: creating richer feeds with RSS 1.0 and RDF metadata
- Using feeds to enrich a site or find information
- Publish and subscribe: intelligent updating
- News aggregators, such as Meerkat, Syndic8, and Newsisfree, and their web services
- Alternative industry-centric standards
If you’re interested in producing your own RSS feed, this step-by-step guide to implementation is the book you’ll want in hand.
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RSS is just XML in a certain format. At its core, it’s pretty basic.
The author goes into MUCH detail about the history of the format as well as older (and nowdays rarely used) RSS versions.
It was interesting reading the history, and the details on the format and extentions was great. It really helped me get up to speed on RSS.
I would like to have seen more discussion about what RSS could do though. If I was consulting the author on the 2nd version, I’d have suggested dropping the info about older formats and putting some info in about the new uses of RSS. . . like iPodder, or the Presidential debate feeds.
If you want to get started quickly, this is a good way to jump in.
Rating: 3 / 5
This & #xE8; a small useful book, all the content & #xE8; inferior to 180 pages and the style dell' author pleasant writing renders it much easy one to read one or two in days. L' height of sides not & #xE8; enormous, but to my opinion, it previews for the effective signalling on RSS. The lists of code, Perl, in useless way (for the persons like me) with other languages, but this in realt& #xE0; it does not regard the book too much perch& #xE9; not & #xE8; a prescription collection offered of codifies. & amp; # xD; Ballot: 4/5
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Ben Hammersley does a great job introducing the history of RSS and explaining all the aspects of using RSS for syndication producers and consumers. The book’s technical descriptions are very clear, aided by the author’s excellent use of diagrams to illustrate the organization of RSS data elements. Another reviewer complained that Chapter 4′s title including “RSS 2. 0″, while not discussing RSS 2. 0 in the chapter’s text. This was apparently an honest mistake that has no effect whatsoever on the book’s presentation, as Chapter 8 is entirely devoted to RSS 2. 0. I note that the Chapter 4 title is corrected in the Safari online edition of the book — O’Reilly is really on top of updates!The author includes an excellent appendix on XML basics; you can give this book to any web developer and get them up to speed on RSS without first making them XML experts. Given the complexity of the topic, this is a top-notch book, easily worth five stars.
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