rss & xml

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is there any difference between rss and xml? will an rss reader read xml feeds?

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RSS it a type of XML. Your reader should read both if it's up to date with the standards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xml

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Just be careful how you write the XML code. There are two very different, but accepted, standards for RSS; whereas XML is used for things other than RSS like data storage, or dynamic page generation.

Study the Wikipedia entry carefully.

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This page helped me out quite a bit with RSS:

Making an RSS feed

It should also give you an idea of how RSS uses XML. In the end it's pretty simple once you know a few things.

Ed Womack
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thank you.

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