Understanding RSS

As an administrator, you may need to include formatted data (news) from external Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. For example, you're going to add New York Times news feeds (for example, http://partners.userland.com/nytRss/technology.xml), BBC news feeds (for example, http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml), and Yahoo! news feeds (http://news.yahoo.com/rss/tech) in the RSS page of the Palm Tree site. Whenever an RSS XML file is updated on the remote site, the page will reflect those updates on the next portal page reload, as shown in the following screenshot:

Understanding RSS

Figure 6.5: The RSS portlet

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