Using RSS
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Revision History
Revision 1.0 | 24 January 2006 | Revised by Chris Lale | ||||||||||
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Revision 1.1 | 27th November 2007 | Revised by Chris Lale | ||||||||||
Reformatted for newbiedoc package. Added Revision History and Licence in Appendix. | ||||||||||||
RSS (Rich Site Summary) is an XML document provided by a link on a website which can be read by a feed reader. It provides up-to-date information about certain pages on the site. NewbieDOC RSS feed for the Recent changes page enables you to monitor the NewbieDOC wiki straight from your desktop.
1 Do it in 5 secondsThe trivial way to read RSS (small online news) is to just run thunderbird (email client) or opera or firefox / iceweasel (www clients) and add there a new RSS feed. In thunderbird you do it as a new account, in firefox/iceweasel by adding a new bookmark called Live Bookmark. --LimCore 04:17, 5 March 2007 (CET) 2 LifereaLiferea is a GTK/GNOME aggregator for online news feeds (Linux feed reader). There is more information, including documentation, at http://liferea.sourceforge.net. 2.1 Installing LifereaThe # aptitude install liferea 2.2 Setting up Liferea for NewbieDOCRun Liferea. (If you are using Gnome, use the Applications menu): Applications -> Internet -> Liferea Feed Reader Configure Liferea. You can copy the Source: URL from the rss link in the toolbox of the Recent changes page (Toolbox -> Special pages -> Recent pages, Toolbox -> rss): Feeds -> New Subscription Feed Source Source Type: URL Source: http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss OK Wait, if necessary, until the next dialogue box appears, then Subscription Properties (Accept defaults) OK 2.3 Reading the NewbieDOC feedIn the left-hand pane, click on the feed to read. NewbieDOC - Recent changes [en] The right-hand pane shows a list of NewbieDOC wiki pages. The first occurance of a new page shows the text of the edit page. Subsequent occurances should show diffs; a minus sign (-) indicates lines removed, a plus sign (+) indicates lines added. Bold indicates unread, normal font indicates read. 2.4 Getting the latest changesHighlight the NewbieDOC feed. Update it using the menu Feeds -> Update Selected or right-click on NewbieDOC and click on Update
3 Appendix A: LicenceCopyright © 2006-2007 Chris Lale, chrislale AT users DOT berlios DOT de.
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