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Behind the Scenes

2003-08-22 | 2003-09-03 | 2003-09-22 | 2003-10-06

Alexander Becker

Feeding Feeds and Meta-Feeds

The services documented on this page are in a beta-stage of development:

About our Feeds and Query-URLs

News-Feed
A computer-readable file containing headlines, summaries and links for new content of a site
  • Enables users or applications to keep track of the latest content
  • Provides dynamically updated headlines by incorporating feeds into webpages

All our feeds are valid XML / RDF according to the RSS 1.0 format [Specification].

Author Feeds

A URL in the form:

/xml/author.php?name=author_name&articles=n

generates a feed with n articles in chronological order; if no value is provided for ‘articles’ the default value is 15; if the value of ‘articles’ is ‘all’, a file with all articles of the given author is created.

Syntax errors or illegal values redirect the request to /xml/feeds.xml.

Meta-Feed: Authors

The query:

/xml/author.php?name=all

generates a feed of all author’s feeds, e.g. a table of content of authors and their feed-URLs.

Experimental

A URL in the form:

/xml/author_and_subject.php?name=author_name&articles=n&subject=topic
/xml/author_and_subject.php?name=alexander_becker&subject=tutorial

restricts the listed items to the topic given in ‘subject’, if existent.

Feature Feeds

A URL in the form:

/xml/feature.php?title=feature

generates a feed with all the articles appearing in the feature.

Syntax errors or illegal values redirect the request to /xml/feeds.xml.

Note: The feed shows only articles; the web-pages contain more information, e.g. documents, resources, and news items.

Meta-Feed: Features

The query:

/xml/feature.php?title=all

generates a feed of all feature’s feeds, e.g. a table of content of features and their feed-URLs.

Newly created features will appear in this feed.

Feed of Meta-Feeds

To complete the cascade, we provide a meta-meta-feed, holding the links to the available meta-feeds.

/xml/feeds.xml

See also

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