VirtualMV/XML/RSS/Content

Introduction

An RSS file is actually just an XML file, so i n order for you to display an rss file on your site you need to have a "converter"

To see the rss file attached to my blog ( http://virtualmv.wordpress.com ) click on http://virtualmv.wordpress.com/feed/

• Note in IE there is an RSS formatter so to see the XML file use view source

which has been converted using a MediaWiki <rss> extension to...

virtualmv Blog RSS

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Blogspot Blog RSS

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Sample of RSS code

• https://news.google.com/news/feeds?ned=us&topic=h&output=rss

Exercise to try

• Save a rss.xml file
• Load into an iFrame and add a css to display just the title & link tags.

If you want to try this dynamically you will probably need some jQuery

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15812946/how-to-applying-css-style-into-an-iframe-content