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															On 27/07/06, Christian Wach <needle at haystack.co.uk> wrote:

> Firstly, I guess I ought to point out that, as is, your RSS feed
> won't validate:
>
> http://feedvalidator.org/check?url=http://www.watershed.co.uk/
> digital_communities/audio.rss
>
> Just small glitches, however. For the GUIDs, you could simply use the
> URL of
> the page that has the video embedded - eg, for the John Keeling item,
> this
> should be nested within the <item> tags:
>
> <guid>http://www.watershed.co.uk/digital_communities/
> john_keeling.html</guid>
>
> For the ultimate in-depth RSS resource, check out:
>
> http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification
>
> And for adding iTunes-specific tags, have a look at:
>
> http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/techspecs.html
>
> There are a lot of nice touches one can apply to feeds without it
> becoming
> overly complicated to do.

Or you can let FeedBurner (www.feedburner.com) do the hard work for
you (once the feed is valid, of course).

It does the iTunes tags, can convert links to enclosures etc. etc.
Even if you're just doing "regular" (non-podcast) RSS/Atom, the
increase in usability of your feeds is well worth it.

Tim