How to make a RSS feed?

[iamskew]

Hey ATOT,

I am an editor at my school paper, The Lantern, at Ohio State University. I want to make a RSS feed for our daily stories on our Web site. Can anyone point me to a guide or a piece of software (read: freeware) to make a RSS feed for our site? Or would anyone be willing to do it for us?

Thanks,
skew

 

[AFB]

Automated I assume?

 

[Thyme]

O-H!

 

[iamskew]

AFP - yes

Thyme - I-O!

 

[Thyme]

Oh man, I thought you were going to leave me hanging.

If I have time this year, I'll help you guys. It will only be hard if you have no access to the source that I assume "college publisher" provides. If I were designing the web site, I would already be storing all the content as XML and then it's just an XSLT transformation to make an RSS feed. Even if it's not, we can tap into whatever system it's using to hold the data or at the minimum post the data to make an RSS feed.

If there's no access to the source, then that's a different issue. I don't know what kind of arrangement you're making with collegepublisher, but it could affect it. If there's no ability to do anything with the source, then we have to do what's called scraping. Basically we write something to look at the HTML and the CSS tags and figure out what's an article on all the pages, then make a feed out of that.

 

[iamskew]

Hey Thyme... I'm sending you a PM so we can talk.

skew