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lizzie_and_ari ([personal profile] lizzie_and_ari) wrote2011-01-10 08:13 am
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Does someone feel like explaining this to me? I have a couple of things set up in Google reader, from pages that have the wee symbol on, but can you set up your own rss feed from a page without the symbol?

Thanks

Lizzie
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2011-01-10 10:23 am (UTC)(link)
The RSS feed is generally set up on the original website - they're basically a version of the page without any formatting, so that they can be displayed elsewhere.

The reason why the page has the symbol on it is because there's a link in the HTML. For instance, on the BBC News page there's this:
<link href="http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="BBC News - Home" />
(you can open that file up to see what RSS looks like)

If the page doesn't have a link to its RSS then it's likely it doesn't have any. But it's worth checking. Which sites are you interested in? I could take a look.
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