RSS to Atom for IT Staff, October 26, 2006

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    • Welcome
    • Introduction of Instructors
    • Remind participants they can type questions in 'Chat' area
    • Remind participants to type their email addresses into 'Chat' area for tracking purposes

    Contents

    Agenda - Slide 1

    • Explain highlights of course

    Why Atom? - Slide 2

    • EXDI a.k.a. Extension Date Interchange

    What's It Take to Convert RSS to Atom? - Slide 3

    • The following presentation is targeted to those who have RSS feed now

    An Example - Slide 4

    Perform example of a short RSS feed (example of ruberics for the presentation):

    • Follow link to "Atom in a Sea of RSS"
    1. Change the tag names first to their atom equivalent
    2. Switch out the date format
    3. Switch out the author tags and add another name
    4. See new attribute on which will allow specific text or HTML for content

    Steps 1-4 - Slides 5-8

    Go over info on these slides

    Other Elements - Slide 9

    • These are elements not shown in the example

    Potential Pitfalls - Slide 10

    • More HTML content available rather than text
    • Date formatting can be painful to encode by hand and libraries have standard defaults to make more easy

    Resources - Slide 11

    • Read specs to find out what is available
    • Visit Sam Ruby website for more info
    • Tools - helpful to validate if feed is correct and shows other possibilities

    Example: Open (in new browser window) live feed from PSU Corporate eXtension - Show how google has converted/moved tags

    Next Steps - Slide 12

    Go over points of slide

    • If no feeds, watch out for follow-up session for those that are starting from scratch

    Professional Development - Slide 13

    • Future eXtension plans in regards to this topic
    • Watch out for future sessions - all previous recordings are online
    • Subscribe to mailing list
    • See eXtension blog for announcements

    Question and Answer Time

    Example: Where do you store atom feeds, in directory where they're being generated or all in one location?

    Answer: Dianamically generated and stored in different place. Dependant on application used.