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RSS and Atom in Action RSS and Atom in Action WEB 2.0 BUILDING BLOCKS DAVE JOHNSON MANNING Greenwich (74° w. long.) For online information and ordering of this and other Manning books, go to www.manning.com. The publisher offers discounts on this book when ordered in quantity. For more information, please contact: Special Sales Department Manning Publications Co. 209 Bruce Park Avenue Fax: (203) 661-9018 Greenwich, CT 06830 email: [email protected] ©2006 by Manning Publications Co. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise, without prior written permission of the publisher. Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in the book, and Manning Publications was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in initial caps or all caps. Recognizing the importance of preserving what has been written, it is Manning’s policy to have the books they publish printed on acid-free paper, and we exert our best efforts to that end. Manning Publications Co. Copyeditor: Jody Gilbert 209 Bruce Park Avenue Typesetter: Denis Dalinnik Greenwich, CT 06830 Cover designer: Leslie Haimes ISBN 1932394494 Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 – VHG – 10 09 08 07 06 To Andi, Alex, Linus, and Leo brief contents PART 1 PROGRAMMING THE WRITABLE WEB ....................... 1 0 ■ What you need to know first 3 1 ■ New ways of collaborating 16 2 ■ Development kick-start 28 3 ■ Under the hood 40 4 ■ Newsfeed formats 56 5 ■ How to parse newsfeeds 79 6 ■ The Windows RSS Platform 109 7 ■ The ROME newsfeed utilities 140 8 ■ How to serve newsfeeds 177 9 ■ Publishing with XML-RPC based APIs 206 10 ■ Publishing with Atom 227 vii viii BRIEF CONTENTS PART 2 BLOG APPS ........................................................... 247 11 ■ Creating a group blog via aggregation 249 12 ■ Searching and monitoring the Web 261 13 ■ Keeping your blog in sync 278 14 ■ Blog by sending email 286 15 ■ Sending a daily blog digest by email 292 16 ■ Blog your software build process 299 17 ■ Blog from a chat room 309 18 ■ Distribute files podcast style 320 19 ■ Automatically download podcasts 333 20 ■ Automatically validate newsfeeds 340 21 ■ The best of the rest 347 contents foreword xix preface xxi acknowledgments xxiii about this book xxiv PART 1 PROGRAMMING THE WRITABLE WEB.......................... 1 0 What you need to know first 3 0.1 What you need to know about Java or C# 4 0.2 What you need to know about web development 5 Web services 5 ■ Java web development 5 ■ C# web development 5 ■ Running scheduled tasks 6 0.3 What you need to know about XML 6 Java XML tools 6 ■ C# XML tools 6 0.4 Blog technology terminology 7 0.5 The components we’ll use 8 Blog application building blocks 8 0.6 Organization of the book 10 0.7 The Blogapps examples 14 0.8 Summary 15 ix