Creating RSS files compatible with ASPRSS standard

Introduction

This article introduces RssPublisher program that allows to edit RSS files compatible with ASPRSS standard and create new ones.
 

What is RSS?

RSS is a format for syndicating content and metadata over the Internet. It is commonly used to share headlines and links to news articles. With news articles, the actual article isn't usually shared, but metadata about the article is; this metadata can include a headline, a URL, or a summary. RSS is an important tool for publishers because feeds can be used to syndicate content, and to integrate third-party content into your site.

RSS is a dialect of XML. All RSS files must conform to the XML 1.0 specification, as published on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web site.

Why RSS?

RSS becomes very popular and many publishers provide their articles with RSS files, many sites accept submitting articles with RSS.

Create RSS file

Most articles about creating RSS files show how to manually create them or how to use server-side technologies such as ASP, ASP.Net or PHP. However if you have small number of articles and do not want to create database on your server the most appropriate solution is to use client-side program that let you fill all needed fields and will create valid RSS file. One such program is RssPublisher.

With this program you can edit existing RSS file or create new one .

RssPublisher  can load existing RSS files (compatible with ASPRSS standard) , edit existing articles, add new ones and  export article list  into MS Access database, MS Excel file or any ADO-compatible database (tested with MS SQL Server) and import article list from these data sources.

When you added all articles you may preview RSS file and validate it.