Keeping users up to date with RSS

Introduction

Sample

When adding a new item to an RSS feed, make sure you increment the GUID, so that RSS clients can tell that a new item was added since the last check. Using a GUID is a safer approach than relying on the Title section, since titles are not guaranteed to be unique.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<rss version="2.0">

<channel>

<title>My Dummy Channel</title>

<link>http://www.acme.com/rss.xml</link>

<description>Some dummy channel</description>

<item>

<title>Test</title>

<link>http://www.acme.com/article.php?123</link>

<description>A basic description</description>

<guid isPermaLink="false">123</guid>

</item>

</channel>

</rss>

Resources

• Validator