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Originally developed by Netscape in 1999, RSS (which can stand for RDF Site Summary, Rich Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based format that allows web developers to describe and syndicate web site content. Content Syndication with RSS offers webloggers, developers, and the programmers who support them a thorough explanation of syndication in general and RSS in particular. Written for web developers who want to offer XML-based feeds of their content, as well as developers who want to use the content that other people are syndicating, the book explores and explains metadata interpretation, different forms of content syndication, and the increasing use of web services in this field. Topics covered in the book include:
  • Creating XML syndication feeds with RSS 0.9x and 2.0
  • Beyond headlines: creating richer feeds with RSS 1.0 and RDF metadata
  • Using feeds to enrich a site or find information
  • Publish and subscribe: intelligent updating
  • News aggregators, such as Meerkat, Syndic8, and Newsisfree, and their web services
  • Alternative industry-centric standards
If you're interested in producing your own RSS feed, this step-by-step guide to implementation is the book you'll want in hand.


About the Author

Armed only with a PowerBook and some fine pipe tobacco, Ben Hammersley is a journalist, writer, explorer, and an errant developer and explainer of semantic web technology. He's also liable to spread his dirty, dirty words over at "The Guardian,"
As an Englishman of the cliched sort, Ben's angle brackets always balance, and his tweed is always pressed. He's not worn trousers for six months now. Ask him about it sometime.

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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (April 1, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596003838
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596003838
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.1 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Little Misleading, September 26, 2004
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For the most part, industry standard RSS is a very short list of simple XML elements. Standard RSS Readers only look for those standardized tags to create the display. You can verify that by opening almost any public RSS XML document and just looking at it. RSS is simple enough that you could probably pick it up by just looking at a well formed sample file and reading the short syntax document provided for free by the creators (UserLand Software for RSS 2.0 or the RSS-DEV Working Group for RSS 1.0 - FeedValidator.org has links to the documentation). After reading this title, I am a little confused as to whom target audience is supposed to be.

The first issue I had with the book is the coverage of versions. The author has chosen to write not only about the two current versions (1.0 and 2.0 - two companies, two separate tracks of standardized tags), but the preceding versions for each. I don't buy a Word 2003 book to learn about Word 6. The layout could serve as a reference guide for the tags when you're done, but again, the vendor provided syntax guides are easier to reference. Next, the author makes some assumptions that aren't publicized; you should be really (really) familiar with XML to understand many chapters in the book, and you should also develop in Perl (as there are numerous, lengthy Perl scripts used as demos). I've created many RSS Feeds for both company Intranets as well as Internet sites, and given the simplicity of RSS, I can tell you that you don't need either to create a feed on your own.

The back cover claims the book is a "step-by-step guide to implementation", but it really isn't. The author has written a very nice book on the general history and specs of standardized RSS, but then fills the remaining pages with a general syntax overview of other commonly used RSS XML namespaces (not really demo-ing them), ideas for extending RSS with your own XML namespaces (which is great, but really just produces a customized XML document that industry standard RSS reader's won't know what to do with) , and then transforming other site's RSS Feeds into your own conglomerated XHTML page with various Perl conversion scripts, SOAP tie-ins, etc.

For the percentage of people that already know RSS and are looking to really go into advanced manipulations - this is a great title and I recommend it. For everyone else who just want to quickly learn the very simple syntax, this is a misleading title and I would recommend saving your money and reading the vendor's free syntax guides, or talking a quick on-line course. You'll find RSS easy enough without this book.
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2.0 out of 5 stars didn't get me started at all!, May 2, 2004
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I was expecting this book to show me somewhere in the first hundred pages an example of how to create an RSS feed. Instead I got wayyyy too much history, and I couldn't find a "hello, world" example.

I grant that the history is important, and this book will probably fit in well to the cadre of books that emerge on RSS over the next year or two. However, this year, this isn't the book I needed.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Best PRINTED resource about the topic available today, March 26, 2004
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I must underscore the reason why I capitalized the word "PRINTED" in the title of this review. This is indeed the best book about the topic of RSS (RDF Site Summary), which has become increasingly more important since blogs jumped out of tech obscurity to become a mainstream form of web-enabled information dissemination. However, nowadays the topic is too dynamic (there's too much happening these days in the field of RSS) to make Hammersley's book a comprehensive and current enough resource for all matters and purposes.

As a general introductory reading, it's the best book out there. But once you get your feet deep enough in the RSS waters, you need to go online and search for the current APIs, Web Services, News Aggregators and RSS/Blog Directories, which is the area where the book will fall behind the fast growth of this area. Overall, very well structured, even with an appendix on the XML you need to know, in order to be able to deal with RSS.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good book, but a little wordy
RSS is just XML in a certain format. At its core, it's pretty basic.

The author goes into MUCH detail about the history of the format as well as older (and nowdays... Read more
Published on October 7, 2004 by Jake McKee

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the few titles on RSS. And it's good, too!
This book really is a must-have (or must-read-once) for anyone interested in RSS syndication technology. Read more
Published on June 2, 2004 by SteelersFan

4.0 out of 5 stars An effective coverage of RSS
This is a useful little book; the whole main content is less than 180 pages and the author's pleasant writing style make it really easy to read in a day or two. Read more
Published on July 10, 2003 by Foti Massimo

5.0 out of 5 stars Covers all the bases in great depth
Ben Hammersley does a great job introducing the history of RSS and explaining all the aspects of using RSS for syndication producers and consumers. Read more
Published on July 7, 2003 by Mel Beckman

3.0 out of 5 stars Solid book, but not great
This is a solid book, and worth having on your bookshelf. I was a bit suprised at it's relative thinness (178 pages less appendices), but it certainly contained a lot of... Read more
Published on April 10, 2003 by Patrick Eyler

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