The name of the channel. It's how people refer
to your service. If you have an HTML website
that contains the same information as your RSS
file, the title of your channel should be the
same as the title of your website.
The URL to the HTML website corresponding to the
channel.
Phrase or sentence describing the channel.
The language the channel is written in. This
allows aggregators to group all Italian language
sites, for example, on a single page. A list of
allowable values for this element, as provided
by Netscape, is here
[http://www.rssboard.org/rss-language-codes].
You may also use values defined by the W3C
[http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/dirlang.html#langcodes].
Copyright notice for content in the channel.
Email address for person responsible for
editorial content.
Email address for person responsible for
technical issues relating to channel.
The publication date for the content in the
channel. For example, the New York Times
publishes on a daily basis, the publication date
flips once every 24 hours. That's when the
pubDate of the channel changes. All date-times
in RSS conform to the Date and Time
Specification of RFC 822, with the exception
that the year may be expressed with two
characters or four characters (four preferred).
Specify one or more categories that the channel
belongs to. Follows the same rules as the
<item>-level category element.
A string indicating the program used to generate
the channel.
The last time the content of the channel
changed.
A URL that points to the documentation for the
format used in the RSS file. It's probably a
pointer to this page. It's for people who might
stumble across an RSS file on a Web server 25
years from now and wonder what it is.
Allows processes to register with a cloud to be
notified of updates to the channel, implementing
a lightweight publish-subscribe protocol for RSS
feeds. More info here.
ttl stands for time to live. It's a number of
minutes that indicates how long a channel can be
cached before refreshing from the source.
Specifies a GIF, JPEG or PNG image that can be
displayed with the channel.
The PICS [http://www.w3.org/PICS/] rating for
the channel.
Specifies a text input box that can be displayed
with the channel.
A hint for aggregators telling them which hours
they can skip. This element contains up to 24
<hour> sub-elements whose value is a
number between 0 and 23, representing a time in
GMT, when aggregators, if they support the
feature, may not read the channel on hours
listed in the <skipHours> element. The
hour beginning at midnight is hour zero.
A hint for aggregators telling them which days
they can skip. This element contains up to seven
<day>
sub-elements whose value is Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday or
Sunday. Aggregators may not read the channel
during days listed in the
<skipDays>element.
The title of the item.
The URL of the item.
The item synopsis.
Email address of the author of the item.
Includes the item in one or more categories.
URL of a page for comments relating to the item.
Describes a media object that is attached to the
item.
A string that uniquely identifies the item.
Indicates when the item was published.
The RSS channel that the item came from.