What is an RSS feed?
Definitions
RSS stands for Rich Site Summary, or more meaningfully, Really Simple Syndication.
An RSS feed dates back to work done by Userland and made popular by Netscape with their "channels". In brief, it is a means of getting updated information, automatically, from a website, via a news reader or news aggregator on to your workstation.
In practice, when the ALP releases new media, you can have the headlines sent to your workstation.
For further reading on historical or technical matters to do with RSS, visit:
RSS History and
News Readers
To get an RSS feed you will need to install a News Reader on your PC. Both Microsoft and Apple have information on suitable RSS readers.
For Microsoft Windows users, Microsoft has material on RSS readers at:
Microsoft Windows Recommendations
Microsoft tends to recommend RSS readers that require .NET installed. One Windows RSS reader that does not require .NET is FeedReader but there are others.
Apple's recommendation is NetNewsWire and RSS at Apple offers a range of RSS feeds.
For an extensive list of news readers, there are many sites on the Web with information on RSS. RSS has become increasingly linked with weblogs, or blogs, so include these terms in any web search.
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Subscribing to the ALP RSS feeds
Personal Use
To subscribe to the latest ALP News, point your RSS Aggregator at "http://www.alp.org.au/media/rss/2.0/feed.xml" 
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Please set your RSS Aggregator to refresh the feed at 30 minute intervals or greater.
More RSS Standards are supported, the full list is below:
- RSS 0.91 - "http://www.alp.org.au/media/rss/0.91/feed.xml"
- RSS 1.0 - "http://www.alp.org.au/media/rss/1.0/feed.xml"
- RSS 2.0 - "http://www.alp.org.au/media/rss/2.0/feed.xml"
- ATOM 0.3 - "http://www.alp.org.au/media/rss/atom0.3/feed.xml"
Webmaster Use
If you control the content of a website and would like to integrate ALP News into your website, you have the following options:
- RSS Integration - available in most weblog and CMS applications (B2,PostNuke, PHPNuke, Typo3)
- Javascript Integration - available to anyone with knowledge of HTML.
The javascript method allows you to reference ALP's News Javascript code in your sites' HTML, allowing you to style the content to integrate with your sites theme.
Example HTML Snippet:
| <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.alp.org.au/media/index.php?task=js_feed&limit=n"></script> |
Where limit=n is the number of items from the homepage links that get fetched.
The styles selectors to use in the host sites css are:
.alp-news {
/* styling here for the <ul> tag */ } .alp-news0 {
/* styling here for odd <li> rows */ }
.alp-news1 {
/* styling here for even <li> rows */ }