[arachne] Re: RSS?

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On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 18:24:07 -0600 (CST), Rob <robo13@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Greg,
> I can't be sure how your TV station does it, but most

Like this: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/abc2/

> websites that have RSS feeds, will have a little orange
> box that says 'xml'.

Yup, found those boxes.

> With some clients, just clicking this
> will enter the feed into your client.

Clicking on it with Arachne downloads a page with the extension .xml
which naturally Arachne doesn't recognize.

When I view it as text, it looks exactly like an html page of links.

So what is it about RSS and XML pages that HTML can't do?

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