RSS Syntax

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss version="2.0">
   <channel>
      <title>...</title>
      <link>...</link>
      <description>...</description>
      
      <language>...</language>
      <rating>...</rating>
      <copyright>...</copyright>
      
      <pubDate>...</pubDate>
      <lastBuildDate>...</lastBuildDate>
      <generator>....</generator>
      
      <docs>...</docs>
      <cloud>...</cloud>
      <ttl>...</ttl>
      
      <managingEditor>...</managingEditor>
      <webMaster>...</webMaster>
      
      <skipHours>
         <hour>...</hour>
      </skipHours>
      
      <skipDays>
         <day>...</day>
      </skipDays>
      
      <image>
         <title>...</title>
         <url>...</url>
         <link>...</link>
         
         <width>...</width>
         <height>...</height>
         <description>...</description>
      </image>
      
      <item>
         <title>...</title>
         <link>...</link>
         <description>...</description>

         <author>....</author>
         <category>....</category>
         <comments>....</comments>

         <enclosure ..../>
         <guid>....</guid>
         <pubDate>....</pubDate>

         <source>....</source>
      </item>
      
      ......More item tags.....
      <textInput>
         <title>...</title>
         <description>...</description>
         <name>...</name>
         
         <link>...</link>
      </textInput>
   </channel>
</rss>

Note: All the tags are case sensitive and should be used carefully

XML Version Identifier

Syntax

<?xml version="1.0"?> or
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="[ encoding code here ]"?>

RSS Version Identifier

Syntax

<rss version="2.0">

Note: Both XML and RSS Version Identifier Required Always and exact.

Channel Tag

Every RSS2.0 File start with a channel

Syntax

Channel Title

The <channel> tag is used to describe an RSS feed. Within the <channel> tag, the <item> tag is used for each item in the RSS feed. Both these tags have many required child tags:

<title> - sets the title of the RSS feed/item

link

<link> - specifies the URL where the RSS feed/item content can be found

Syntax

Description

<description> - sets a description for the RSS feed/item

Syntax

<description>Your source for tutorials, references and manuals!</description>

generator

<generator> - Specifies the program used to create your RSS feed.if the RSS feed is created using an automatic feed creator like myRSScreator than it is used.

Syntax

<generator>Weblog Editor 2.0</generator>

Language

<language> - Specifies the language your RSS feed is written in.

Syntax

<language>[ language code here ]</language>

TTL( Time To Live)

<ttl> - Specifies how many minutes your RSS feed can stay cached before it is refreshed (stands for Time To Live).

Syntax

Enclosure

<enclosure> - Specifies a media file to be included with an RSS item.

Syntax

Image

<image> - Specifies an image to be displayed together with a feed.

Syntax

<image>

Note :If Image is available than use these syntax

Syntax

<width>[ numeric value here ]</width>

<height>[ numeric value here ]</height>

RSS documents use a self-describing and simple syntax.

Here is a simple RSS document:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
  <title>Ajax and XUL</title>
  <link>http://www.xul.fr/en/</link>
  <description>XML graphical interface etc...</description>
  <image>
      <url>http://r4r.co.in/image.gif</url>
      <link>http://r4r.co.in/index.shtml</link>
  </image>
  <item>
      <title>News  of today</title>
      <link>http://r4r.co.in/en-xml-rss.shtml</link>
      <description>every thing which you want to add </description>
  </item>
  <item>
      <title>News of tomorrows</title>
      <link>http://r4r.co.in-rdf.shtml</link>
      <description>All about RDF</description>
    </item>
</channel>
</rss>