[Web4lib] Creating an RSS feed

Erica DeFrain erica.defrain at law.arizona.edu
Mon Sep 17 11:32:04 EDT 2007


I customized the code provided from easycfm.com:

http://tutorial213.easycfm.com/

works very well and pretty simple to tweak.

-erica


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dowling
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 6:20 AM
To: Sidey, Carolyne
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Creating an RSS feed

On 9/14/2007 7:01 PM, Sidey, Carolyne wrote:

> 
> I have an access database feeding a website with  content using
ColdFusion. (I did not write this but can tweak it) 
> I want to offer people RSS feed of new materials added to the access
database. 
> 
> Is this easy? 
> Is this possible? 
> 



In my experience, if you have data that would make sense as an RSS feed,
and access to some sort of server-side scripting, making a feed is not
very difficult.  I use RSS 2.0, described at
<http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification>.




-- 
Thomas Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu

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