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articles/feed.php - Provide full articles in the RSS 2.0 format

This script lists newest published articles, providing following information:

title - title of the article
link - absolute url to fetch the article
description - introduction of the particle, or the first part of the main text
content:encoded - article description (up to 500 words)
time - date and time of article last modification

[removed because of spammers] - author - last contributor to the article

category - label of the section from where the article is originated
image - absolute url to fetch a related image, if any
comments - absolute url to expose related comments for a human being

Also, several meta-links are provided to help client software to do its job correclty:

trackback:about - absolute url to fetch the article (=== link)
trackback:ping - absolute url to post links to the article
wfw:comment - absolute url to post a new comment
wfw:commentRss - absolute url to expose related comments as RSS feed

Basically, these meta-links mean that YACS fully support trackback and Comment API specifications.

Additionally, the provided XML links to a cascaded style sheet, enabling further rendering enhancements.

To get a simpler regular feed go to feeds/rss_2.0.php.

If following features are enabled, this script will use them:

compression - Through gzip, we have observed a shift from 4766 bytes to 1111 bytes,

meaning one Ethernet frame rather than three

cache - Cache is supported through ETag and by setting Content-Length; Also, Cache-Control enables caching

for some time, even through HTTPS

This script is a reference file of this system.

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Licence: GNU Lesser General Public License

Auteurs:

Bernard Paques bernard.paques@bigfoot.com