Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Programming Interview Questions and Answers

6 :: What Is the Icon for RSS and Atom?

The Web browser and Website syndication industry has adopted a standard icon to identify syndicated content as shown below:
Syndication Feed Icon

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7 :: What RSS 2.0 Files Look Like?

A RSS 2.0 file looks like the sample RSS 2.0 document below:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Developer HTML Tutorial and Tips</title>
<link>http://www.globalguideline.com/html/</link>
<description>Massive collection of frequently asked
questions by developers with clear answers and
tutorials tips.
</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<pubDate>Sat, 1 Jul 2006 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<webMaster>noreply@globalguideline.com</webMaster>
<item>
<title>CSS Tutorial Tips</title>
<link>http://www.globalguideline.com/css/</link>
<description>A collection of FAQs on CSS and Atom
introduction and generation of feed files.</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 1 Jul 2006 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalguidelinecom/xml/</guid>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

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8 :: What Atom 1.0 Files Look Like?

An Atom 1.0 file looks like the sample Atom 1.0 document below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<title>Atom FAQs, Tips and Tutorials</title>
<subtitle>The first Atom document example</subtitle>
<link href="http://www.globalguideline.com/faq/rss/"/>
<updated>2006-07-13T18:30:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>globalguideline.com</name>
<email>noreply@globalguideline.com</email>
</author>
<id>urn:uuid:60a76c80-d399-11d9-b91C-0003939e0af6</id>
<entry>
<title>Introduction to Atom</title>
<link href="http://globalguideline.com/faq/rss/index.html"/>
<id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a</id>
<updated>2006-07-13T18:30:02Z</updated>
<summary>A collection of 7 FAQs to introduce you the
basics of RSS and Atom for Website syndication.</summary>
</entry>
</feed>

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9 :: What Is Atom 1.0 Standard?

Atom is an XML-based document format that describes lists of related information known as "feeds". Feeds are composed of a number of items, known as "entries", each with an extensible set of attached metadata. For example, each entry has a title.

The current version of Atom is Atom 1.0. For more information, please visit http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287.txt.

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10 :: What Is the Relation between Atom and XML?

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a generic markup language to organize generic information into a structured document with embedded tags.

Atom is an extension of XML designed to organize headlines of news or summaries of Web pages to feed to news aggregators.

For more information on XML, please visit http://www.w3.org/XML/.

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