Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Introduction; What Are RSS and Atom for?; A Short History of RSS and Atom; Why Syndicate Your Content?; Legal Implications; 2. Using Feeds; Web-Based Applications; Desktop Applications; Other Cunning Techniques; Finding Feeds to Read; 3. Feeds Without Programming; From Email; From a Search Engine; From Online Stores; 4. RSS 2.0; Bringing Things Up to Date; The Basic Structure; Producing RSS 2.0 with Blogging Tools; ; Introducing Modules; Creating RSS 2.0 Feeds; 5. RSS 1.0; Metadata in RSS 2.0; Resource Description Framework; RDF in XML; Introducing RSS 1.0; The Specification in Detail; Creating RSS 1.0 Feeds; 6. RSS 1.0 Modules; Module Status; Support for Modules in Common Applications; Other RSS 1.0 Modules; 7. The Atom Syndication Format; Introducing Atom; The Atom Entry Document in Detail; Producing Atom Feeds; 8. Parsing and Using Feeds; Important Issues; JavaScript Display Parsers; Parsing for Programming; Using Regular Expressions; Using XSLT; Client-Side Inclusion; Server-Side Inclusion; 9. Feeds in the Wild; Once You Have Created Your Simple RSS Feed; Publish and Subscribe; Rolling Your Own: LinkPimp PubSub; LinkpimpClient.pl; 10. Unconventional Feeds; Apache Logfiles; Code TODOs to RSS; Daily Doonesbury; Amazon.com Wishlist to RSS; FedEx Parcel Tracker; Google to RSS with SOAP; Last-Modified Files; Installed Perl Modules; The W3C Validator to RSS; Game Statistics to Excel; Feeds by SMS; Podcasting Weather Forecasts; Having Amazon Produce Its Own RSS Feeds; Cross-Poster for Movable Type; 11. Developing New Modules; Namespaces and Modules Within RSS 2.0 and Atom; Case Study: mod_Book; Extending Your Desktop Reader; Introducing AmphetaDesk; A. The XML You Need for RSS; B. Useful Sites and Software; Index

About the Author

Ben Hammersley is an English emigre, living in Florence, Italy, with his wife, three greyhounds, and the Renaissance. Galileo's little finger is in a jar only 400 yards from his desk. For a day job, he writes for the British national press, appearing in The Times, The Guardian and The Observer, but in his free time, he blogs excessively at www benhammersley.com. As the author of Content Syndication with RSS, he survived the Great Fork Summer, and as a journalist he has been accosted by the secret police of two countries. To this day, he doesn't know which was worse.

Reviews

"Hammersley's pevious RSS book was seminal, this one is definitive." - Davey Winder, PC Plus, September (PC Plus Editor's Choice) 9/10