| Preface |
| Introduction / 1： |
| What Are RSS and Atom for? |
| A Short History of RSS and Atom |
| Why Syndicate Your Content? |
| Legal Implications |
| Using Feeds / 2： |
| Web-Based Applications |
| Desktop Applications |
| Other Cunning Techniques |
| Finding Feeds to Read |
| Feeds Without Programming / 3： |
| From Email |
| From a Search Engine |
| From Online Stores |
| RSS 2.0 / 4： |
| Bringing Things Up to Date |
| The Basic Structure |
| Producing RSS 2.0 with Blogging Tools |
| Introducing Modules |
| Creating RSS 2.0 Feeds |
| RSS 1.0 / 5： |
| Metadata in RSS 2.0 |
| Resource Description Framework |
| RDF in XML |
| Introducing RSS 1.0 |
| The Specification in Detail |
| Creating RSS 1.0 Feeds |
| RSS 1.0 Modules / 6： |
| Module Status |
| Support for Modules in Common Applications |
| Other RSS 1.0 Modules |
| The Atom Syndication Format / 7： |
| Introducing Atom |
| The Atom Entry Document in Detail |
| Producing Atom Feeds |
| Parsing and Using Feeds / 8： |
| Important Issues |
| JavaScript Display Parsers |
| Parsing for Programming |
| Using Regular Expressions |
| Using XSLT |
| Client-Side Inclusion |
| Server-Side Inclusion |
| Feeds in the Wild / 9： |
| Once You Have Created Your Simple RSS Feed |
| Publish and Subscribe |
| Rolling Your Own: LinkPimp PubSub |
| LinkpimpClient.pl |
| Unconventional Feeds / 10： |
| 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 |
| Developing New Modules / 11： |
| Namespaces and Modules Within RSS 2.0 and Atom |
| Case Study: mod_Book |
| Extending Your Desktop Reader |
| Introducing AmphetaDesk |
| The XML You Need for RSS / A： |
| Useful Sites and Software / B： |
| Index |
| Preface |
| Introduction / 1： |
| What Are RSS and Atom for? |
| A Short History of RSS and Atom |
| Why Syndicate Your Content? |
| Legal Implications |
