I got this feed from the BBC website. It shows the description and everything but how do these news events update and change? I mean wont these news events get old after a few days?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/5387556.stm
2006-09-28 07:18:45 · 3 answers · asked by peter s 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Actually RSS is the XML, to correct the post above. The RSS is updated on the back end, using a server side technology like PHP or ASP. You can also manually update it, but that is very tedious.
Most of the news sites, blogs, etc. that have RSS have their articles/posts saved in a database. The RSS feed script then just needs to read from this database and display the required data in the proper XML format. These sites will then either update the RSS on a regular basis, or, more usually, 'create' a new file every time it is requested, the same way the articles themselves are created. Usually, the RSS feed will just have the 15 or so most recent articles from a site (or section of the site in the case of most news sites).
2006-09-28 07:28:37 · answer #1 · answered by John J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there were tries at getting them to update automatically... years ago...
but most rss readers ignored the suggested time to reload.
now the readers periodically check for updated files on the server, and hopefully the server has updated the feed.
some rss readers hold on to old info, from previous feeds, most modern readers discard any item that is not in the current feed.
2006-09-28 15:38:23 · answer #2 · answered by jake cigar™ is retired 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
RSS uses xml to update the information, which is accessed from your website. You can't actually put that code in your site. You have to have a link to the news feed from your site. You'll have to search the internet on how to get RSS feeds added to your site.
2006-09-28 14:23:48 · answer #3 · answered by rob 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋