XML - Managing Data Exchange/RSS/Answers

Exercises

1.	Pick out three articles from redandblack.com and manually create a RSS document. Upload your file to your web area and use a RSS aggregator to read the file. Validate your file with feedvalidator.org.
2.	Pick out three top downloads from sourceforge.net and manually create an RSS document. Upload your file to your web area and use an RSS aggregator to read the file. Validate your file with feedvalidator.org

Answers

RSS_Exercise_1.xml (submitted by Jan Helge Austbø)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>redandblack.com</title>
<link>http://www.redandblack.com/index.html</link>
<description>The Red and Black - serving the University of Georgia community</description>
<copyright>Copyright 2004 The Red and Black Publishing Company</copyright>
<language>en-us</language>
<lastBuildDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:31:00 EST</lastBuildDate>
<image>
<url>http://media.redandblack.com/vimages/default/masthead_small.gif</url>
<title>The Red and Black > Home Page</title>
<link>http://www.redandblack.com/index.html</link>
</image>
<item>
<title>Adams high on salary list</title>
<link>http://www.redandblack.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/11/17/419acdf96ada1</link>
<description>University President Michael Adams was ranked sixth in a recent study of the country's highest paid public university . . . </description>
<author>mail@redandblack.com (SARA PAUFF)</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:31:00 EST</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Group celebrates Brazilian dance</title>
<link>http://www.redandblack.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/11/17/419ab88621abc</link>
<description>Like African slaves in 19th-century Brazil, University student Camila Esposel practices capoeira.</description>
<author>mail@redandblack.com (MEILING AROUNNARATH)</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:31:00 EST</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Freshmen dominate starting positions</title>
<link>http://www.redandblack.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/11/17/419acdfa4d8c8</link>
<description>Freshmen guards Channing Toney and Sundiata Gaines said they thought the same thing when they considered coming to play . . .</description>
<author>mail@redandblack.com (MEILING AROUNNARATH)</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:31:00 EST</pubDate>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

RSS_Exercise_2.xml (submitted by Jan Helge Austbø)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel> 
<title>sourceforge.net</title>
<link>http://www.sourceforge.net</link>
<description>SourceForge.net is the world's largest Open Source software development website</description>
<copyright>Copyright 2004 - OSTG Open Source Technology Group, All Rights Reserved</copyright>
<language>en-us</language>
<lastBuildDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:31:00 EST</lastBuildDate>
<image> 
<url>http://images.sourceforge.net/images/SourceForge.jpg</url>
<title>SourceForge.net</title>
<link>http://www.sourceforge.net</link>
</image>
<item> 
<title>eMule</title>
<link>http://sourceforge.net/projects/emule/</link>
<description>Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:29:00 EST</pubDate>
</item>
<item> 
<title>Azureus - BitTorrent ClientAccepting Donations</title>
<link>http://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus/</link>
<description>Azureus is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform java BitTorrent client.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:30:00 EST</pubDate>
</item>
<item> 
<title>BitTorrent</title>
<link>http://sourceforge.net/projects/bittorrent/</link>
<description>BitTorrent is a tool for distributed downloads.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:31:00 EST</pubDate>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>