RSS Feed Editor
Used to create XML RSS Documents

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RSS Channel Required Information

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You must create a Channel first. A Channel is a description of your website or feed topic. It is a way to group topics.

Title: This is the channel name. ; i.e. Technology Tools
Link: to Channel website; i.e.  http://lcc.ctc.edu/faculty/yourwebsitename
Description:
Brief description of Channel contents

Create Channel Reset only clears text in this section.


RSS Channel Item Information: Items are added after Channel has been created.

Title: of Item listed in Channel
Link: to item being listed. An item may represent a "story" -- much like a story in a newspaper or magazine; if so its description is a synopsis of the story, and the link points to the full story. i.e.
Description of item: Think of this as abstract or full text


Optional Features:
Author of Item Categorize Item Publication Date 
For mp3 Podcast feeds complete these two parts.
:URL to mp3 file :Size of mp3 file in Bytes

Create RSS Item:  Create adds to channel.   Reset clears item boxes, you can add more than one item to each channel.

RSS XML

  If you reset RSS the Channel and all Items are reset as well.

Warning: Be sure your encoding type specified in the xml document matches the web page encoding used.

Here is an example of what the RSS will look like. Green text represents text entered by user using this tool.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8559-1" ?>
- <rss version="2.0">
- <channel>
<title>Liftoff News</title>
<link>http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/</link>
<description>Liftoff to Space Exploration.</description>
- <item>
<title>Star City</title>
<link>http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/news/2003/news-starcity.asp</link>
<description>How do Americans get ready to work with Russians aboard the International Space Station? They take a crash course in culture, language and protocol at Russia's http://howe.iki.rssi.ru/GCTC/gctc_e.htm Star City.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2003 09:39:21 GMT</pubDate>
<author>http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/2003/06/03.html#item573</author>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>