Posted by TC on 06/14/06 20:06

Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote:
> nicolas.bussard@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > They also deliver RSS feeds to your site, intranet or software package.
>
> What does it mean to "deliver RSS feeds to your site"? Isn't the whole
> point of RSS that you can access content directly from its creator,
> without needing an intermediary site like this.

It's not that simple. Because the content comes from a different
domain, it can be difficul (or impossible) to access the content
programatically, or to impose your own site's styles on it.

Here's my article on RSS. It includes a description (and working
example) of each of the ways that I have found, to include RSS content
on your own site. It also shows you how to create an RSS feed for
*your* web site:

http://tc2.atspace.com/0016-AboutRSS.htm

HTH,
TC (MVP MSAccess)
http://tc2.atspace.com

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