RSS feed, wtf?

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RSS feed, wtf?

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Okay, so we're working on an update to the WBK website, to make it more user friendly and informative. One thing that we would like to have is an RSS feed of our LJ account (http://community.livejournal.com/hallonpress) where we post updates. To have it show up on the WBK site would be lot easier than writing manually on the main page whenever there's an update.

Or so I thought. Turns out I don't get it at all. I tried to read my way into how it's done, but all the documents seem to assume that you already know a lot about XML and data feeds. I really feel that I'm missing something crucial...

So, is there anyone who could help us with this, just explain how it works, or set up some template for us to work with, or something...?

Or at least point to a document I can understand. :roll:

Thanks in advance.

-Mattias
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http://community.livejournal.com/hallonpress/data/rss
That is the location of your LJ's RSS feed. Putting the actual livejournal data on your page is a painful experience without paying for it. All you need to provide is a link to that, and in the head of the page the automatic discovery code:

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<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="What Birds Know" href="http://community.livejournal.com/hallonpress/data/rss" >
That'll cause that nice RSS button to show up in firefox.

Hopefully that helps.
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