Hello all, Newbie here. Please bear with me. I'm putting together a small site for a neighborhood newspaper, and they want to offer their online readers the option to subscribe to feeds of their content, which is updated weekly. With my newly attained, yet feeble knowledge of RSS, It seems that I need to create an xml file that contains the channel, items, info, etc. Now, do I need to update the xml file manually, when updating the site content, or is there a way to automatically update the xml file when the html files on the site change? Or is there a completely different way of going about this? Thanks for any help you can offer.
If you edit your HTML files manually, RSS needs probably to be done manually. If you use a system (a CMS) for your site content, you should let that output the RSS.
Yes, all the updates are done manuallly. What about this "html scraping" I've read a bit about? Can it somehow be automated to create the xml file?
I cannot believe that an auto script is unable to be used. Rather than modify a cms or blog type script I will go look for one first. No need to reinvent the wheel. I will post back when I find one...