I'm not a programmer, but would be interested to know the learning curve for the XML programming language. I would really like to be able to setup RSS/XML feeds for static content on my own sites.
XML isn't a programming language. Just a mark-up language really. A way to organize data, not to make anything with that works or does things. It's the language applications ought to speak when communicating with eachother where the application can be in whatever language you want on whatever platform you want. XML isn't that complicated. Building WDSL / XML web services a bit more so.
No. Never studied it really, just use PHP and NUSOAP which AFAIK is a quick way to spit out XML and also take it in again. What are you trying to do exactly?
Basically, I'm trying to create RSS/XML news feeds of certain pages of my site, to enable me to display the feed on other websites, rss readers, etc.
I'm pretty sure there are ready-made free and open source tools out there for you already where you can choose a couple of database columns, some formatting and it will spit out valid XML. Check hotscripts.com for PHP ones.
Yeah I've checked some of them out. Being open source, they require you to link to em, which is fair enough, but not what I wanna do.