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Blogware RSS

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Scott Mace wonders where Elliot's RSS is.
There are a couple of ways to find out where any specific Blogware feed might be - first, all of the default blogware templates have a Syndication link in the header bar of each page. The default one links to the root RSS feed (in the format of the publisher's choosing) that sits in the root directory of the blog. ie http://www.byte.org/blog/index.xml
Publishers can also choose to add a link to this header bar that point to their category RSS feeds - I've done this on byte.org, Elliot hasn't on e-Land. We turn it off by default because it can be a little bit confusing for the average bear. The trick in finding this is pretty straightforward - they are predictably found at http://blognhostname/blog/directoryname/index.xml
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If you really want to get fancy, you can grab a directory of all of a blog's available feeds by parsing http://bloghostname/blog/ocs.xml
We've got a few more surprises in store, RSS-wise - I'll definitely blog about them as we release the new functionality.

See this post as it first appeared on Blogware.

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  1. (name not saved), September 28, 2003

    had it up shortly after this after darryl and james barked about it on my way down their aisle!