Important Notice: Our web hosting provider recently started charging us for additional visits, which was unexpected. In response, we're seeking donations. Depending on the situation, we may explore different monetization options for our Community and Expert Contributors. It's crucial to provide more returns for their expertise and offer more Expert Validated Answers or AI Validated Answers. Learn more about our hosting issue here.

I don’t understand the purpose of the RSS 2.0 element. Can you explain it again?

April 26, 2017don’t element explain purpose RSS understand

0

Posted

I don’t understand the purpose of the RSS 2.0 element. Can you explain it again?

1 Answer

0

Posted

In RSS 2.0, the purpose of the element is to specify a globally unique identifier for each item in the feed. By “globally unique” we mean that no other item in your feed or any other feed in the world should have the same value. There are a variety of ways to handle this, but the recommendation I have given in class is to start this value with the URL of the published feed (see the assignment description for this), since the whole point of a file’s URL is to uniquely identify that file among the billions of resources on the Web. Using the URL of the feed gives you a way to uniquely identify your articles as distinct from those in all the other feeds out there. But it doesn’t distinguish the articles in your feed from each other. Therefore, we need to add something to the end of the URL to accomplish that. When we add something to the end of a URL, it’s generally best to start with a question mark. After adding the question mark, add a number. Use 1 for your first item, 2