[Scripting News]

News Goes RSS!.

U.S.News & World Report

"Articles from the last 14 days are free. Archived articles may be purchased for as little as $1.99." [Recently approved feeds from Syndic8.com]

Check it out - U.S. News hops the RSS gravy train! They even have the white-on-orange XML button on the page (bottom right-hand side) with a what is this link!

"This button () links to our weekly RSS feed. RSS stands for 'Really Simple Syndication,' an XML-based format for distributing links to our latest stories. Usnews.com updates the RSS feed on Saturday afternoons (EST) with links and descriptions for each of the stories from our most recent issue. We also offer exclusive web-only content, which we add to the feed as soon as it becomes available online. We encourage you to use this feed for your own use, but we do not allow re-posting of our full-text stories."

One note, though - you can probably get older articles for free from your local library. Great to see another major publisher coming on board!

[The Shifted Librarian]

Michael Fagan's Absolutely Fantastic, Really Cool, Just Plain Excellent RSS Resource.

Michael Fagan's Absolutely Fantastic, Really Cool, Just Plain Excellent RSS Resource

Wow. Michael Fagan just emailed me about his new RSS resources page and asked me for comments.  I don't even know where to start -- and that's not because its bad -- its just plain excellent.  I'm sure in time I can come up with comments but for now run, don't walk over to his site.  Recommended.

[The FuzzyBlog!]

Let me add my endorsement. Definitlely an excellent resource.

[McGee's Musings]

CNET Apr 17 2003 0:25AM ET [Moreover - XML and metadata news]

Top XML Apr 19 2003 11:43PM ET [Moreover - XML and metadata news]

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CNET Apr 19 2003 0:23AM ET [Moreover - XML and metadata news]

Dave talks about OPML based directories. I knocked up an ASP.NET based viewer, straight forward enough, you can see it in action (its using Dave's example directory), or grab the source (C#). Couple of comments, (i) I tried to point it at the soapware.org OPML file but was getting XML parser errors on the ø entity at line 61 (my understanding of XML agree's with that). and (ii) looking at the extension on the URL to determine if a link is a sub OPML doc or an external link probably should be using a different type attribute value instead. This'll make dynamically generating OPML for intergration into directories problematic for some platforms/web hosts. [Simon Fell]

(SOURCE:"42")-Very cool collection of example code that displays RSS files. Tons of languages such as Perl, Rebol, JavaScript, ASP, etc. are represented. If you want an RSS feed displayed on your website, there's probably some sample code here you can use. [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

I've long dreamed of using RSS to produce and consume XML content. We're so close. RSS content is HTML, which is almost XHTML, a gap that HTML Tidy can close. In current practice, the meat of an RSS item appears in the <description> tag, either as an HTML-escaped (aka entity-encoded) string or as a CDATA element. As has been often observed, it'd be really cool to have the option to use XHTML as well. Then I could write blog items in which the <pre> tag, or perhaps a class="codeFragment" attribute, marks regions for precise search. You or I could aggregate those items into personal XPath-aware databases in order to do those searches locally (perhaps even offline), and public aggregators could offer the same capability over the Web. [O'Reilly Network] ... [Jon's Radio]