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Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a family of web content syndication formats used to publish frequently updated works — such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video — in a standardized format.

RSS is a dialect of XML. All RSS files must conform to the XML 1.0 specification, as published on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website.

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How do I make an RSS/Atom feed in Rails 3?

I'm pretty new to Rails 3, and I'm trying to make an RSS/Atom feed. I know about auto_discovery_link_tag, but what is the associated controller/action supposed to look like? Thanks!
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How can I get started making a C# RSS Reader?

I have been wanting to make a RSS reader for a while now (just for fun), but I don't have the slightest idea of where to start. I don't understand anything about RSS. Are there any good tutorials on RSS and how to implement it in an application (not…
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URL format for Google News RSS feed

Google deprecated the old RSS feed URL format December 1st 2017 (deprecation notice), in addition to that they dropped the button in the Google News interface to generate a RSS URL (news mentioning this change). This means that there is no public…
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Getting raw XML data from a Feedburner RSS feed

For an Android app I am currently working on, I would like to be able to parse raw XML data from an RSS feed and display it. The RSS feed in question uses Feedburner for publishing, and my Google-fu has so far given me nothing on how to get the raw…
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What is the correct format for RSS feed pubdate?

I'm having trouble getting the date of my RSS Feed to run correctly. Do you know what the proper date to show it is? I have it stored in a field called creation_date in this format: 2012-08-14 10:17:12 Then i grab it: $pubDate =…
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RSS specification HTML code inside RSS feed

Is HTML code inside the tag compliant in RSS 2.0?
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RSS feed parser library in Python

I am looking for a good library in python that will help me parse RSS feeds. Has anyone used feedparser? Any feedback?
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How do I parse and convert DateTime’s to the RFC 822 date-time format?

How do I convert a DateTime structure to its equivalent RFC 822 date-time formatted string representation and parse this string representation back to a DateTime structure in .NET? The RFC-822 date-time format is used in a number of specifications…
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What is the difference between and in RSS?

I have the feeling, in every RSS.xml file, both the pubDate and the lastBuildDate match. I am sure that this one, is not always true... So firstly, what is the difference between those two above? Secondly, the RSS readers, sort the content by Date,…
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EditText with suggestion list below

I want to implement a "Google instant" like list in my app. Having an editText on top and a list below it, that is updated every time the user types in a new character. Can you point me to the right direction? Is there any widget or anything that I…
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Why Are People Still Creating RSS Feeds?

...instead of using the Atom syndication format? Atom is a well-defined, general-purpose XML syndication format. RSS is fractured into four different versions. All the major feed readers have supported Atom for as long as I can remember, so why…
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Reading non-standard elements in a SyndicationItem with SyndicationFeed

With .net 3.5, there is a SyndicationFeed that will load in a RSS feed and allow you to run LINQ on it. 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