Creating an RSS feed : The Items

Author: John Fowler

Now let's take a look at how items are built:

<item>
    <title></title>
    <link></link>
    <description></description>
    <pubDate></pubDate>
</item>


Let's examine how to embed a couple of items in our galactic news feed:

<channel>
    <title>Galactic News</title>
    <link>http://www.galacticnews.scf/rss/</link>
    <description>Galactic news delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the
    latest top stories, in the Milky Way galaxy</description>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <copyright>© 2004 MW News Network inc.</copyright>
    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:17:12 GST</pubDate>
    <ttl>5</ttl>
    <image>
        <title>Galactic News</title>
        <link>http://www.galacticnews.scf/rss/</link>
        <url> http://www.galacticnews.scf/rss/galactic-news-logo.png</url>
        <width>100</width>
        <height>40</height>
        <description> Galactic news delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the
        latest top stories, in the Milky Way galaxy </description>
    </image>

    <item>
        <title>Galactic press conference: Martian King to visit earth next month</title>
        <link>http://www.galacticnews.scf/news/14012004/464.html</link>
        <description>The king of Mars will make an historic visit to earth. According to
        government officials the majesty is expected to arrive some time next month
        accompanied by a whole bunch of 'green little men'.<description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2004 02:34:22 GST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title> Peace talks between Milky way and Andromeda to resume soon</title>
        <link>http://www.galacticnews.scf/news/14012004/462.html</link>
        <description> Representatives of the two galaxies will meet on a near by quasar
        to try and bring to an end the latest conflict between the two
        galaxies<description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2004 01:15:46 GST</pubDate>
    </item>
</channel>


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