RSS Advisory Board

There are a lot of libraries for processing XML data with Java that can be used to read RSS feeds. One of the best is the open source library XOM created by the computer book author Elliotte Rus...

https://www.rssboard.org/news/221/read-rss-feed-java-using-xom

"Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther." Today is the 20th birthday of the RSS Advisory Board, the group that publishes the RSS specification . It was formed on July 18, 2003...

https://www.rssboard.org/news/220/rss-advisory-board-just-turned-20

The software developer Niko Abeler has crawled 51,165 podcast feeds to study what RSS elements they contain. His comprehensive Podcast Feed Standard report looks at the usage of core RSS element...

https://www.rssboard.org/news/219/downloading-50000-podcast-feeds-analyze

The exodus of users away from Twitter and Reddit has led many of those information refugees to discover the joy of subscribing to feeds in a reader. RSS and Atom feeds are an enormous open decent...

https://www.rssboard.org/news/218/tara-calishain-explains-rss

Winter scenes: Snowflakes by Theodor Horydczak If you publish an RSS feed, you should do a solid for the developers of RSS readers by including a guid in each item. The guid's job is to be a un...

https://www.rssboard.org/news/217/unique-and-use-rss-guid-like-everybody

There has been recent discussion about the roadmap that was added to the RSS 2.0 specification in August 2002 announcing that there would be no new additions to RSS, freezing its set of elements...

https://www.rssboard.org/news/216/has-rss-advisory-board-followed

An effort is underway to examine how feed publishers and feed consumers are handling the lack of clarity in the RSS 2.0 specification about whether an item can contain more than one enclosure. T...

https://www.rssboard.org/news/214/rss-enclosure-support-microblog

This month marks the 20th anniversary of the effort that became the Atom feed format . It all began on June 16, 2003, with a blog post from Apache Software Foundation contributor Sam Ruby asking...

https://www.rssboard.org/news/213/atom-feed-format-born-20-years-ago

If you need to load an RSS feed with the PHP programming language, the open source library SimplePie greatly simplifies the process of pulling in items from a feed to present on a website, st...

https://www.rssboard.org/news/212/read-rss-feed-php-using

The distributed social network Mastodon has grown to 12.8 million user accounts , supporting itself through user donations and a lot of effort by the volunteers running servers. There's no CEO ch...

https://www.rssboard.org/news/211/every-mastodon-user-has-rss-feed

One of the biggest challenges for a software developer implementing the RSS 2.0 specification is the issue of enclosures in a feed item. The specification is infamously unclear on whether an ite...

https://www.rssboard.org/news/210/rss-enclosure-support-wordpress

The RSS Advisory Board has published the RSS 2.0 Specification for 20 years, releasing 10 revisions over that time. The current version of the specification can always be found at this URL: ht...

https://www.rssboard.org/news/209/find-rss-specification

Brent Simmons, the developer of the NetNewsWire RSS reader, is questioning his decision to put an unread count next to each feed, reasoning that it encourages people to be too obsessive about re...

https://www.rssboard.org/news/208/should-feed-readers-count-unread-items

If you export your WordPress blog, it is delivered to you as an RSS feed that holds all of the blog's entries, pages and comments. WordPress makes use of five namespaces and calls the format Word...

https://www.rssboard.org/news/207/wordpress-uses-rss-blog-export-format

The RSS feeds of the RSS-Public and RSS-Board mailing lists are no longer available. Yahoo Groups used to offer feeds for each of its public lists, but Yahoo dropped support last year. A member ...

https://www.rssboard.org/news/206/yahoo-groups-dropped-rss-feed-support