4. Creating RSS Feeds from Scratch

There are plenty of RSS editors that let you create an RSS feed and upload it to a Web site. But as you get more sophisticated with handling RSS, there will be times you’ll want to do the work yourself. You may need to do some things your editor can’t do, for example, or you might just want to set up a template for your RSS feed and periodically edit the items yourself.

Working with RSS directly gives you all the power this rich set of languages has to offer. But now the question is, which version of RSS do you want to use?

To make sure you know how to work with a particular version of RSS, you have to read the specification for that version. The specification tells you how to write the actual XML for that version ...

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