Beginning RSS and Atom Programming -- About the Authors -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Foreword by Dare Obasanjo -- Foreword by Greg Reinacker -- Introduction -- Whom This Book Is For -- What This Book Covers -- How This Book Is Structured -- What You Need to Use This Book -- Conventions -- Source Code -- Errata -- p2p.wrox.com -- Part I: Understanding the Issues and Taking Control -- Chapter 1: Managing the Flow of Information: A Crucial Skill -- New Vistas of Information Flow -- Managing Information -- Taking Control of Information -- Information Flows Other Than the Web -- The Web and Information Feeds -- Summary -- Exercise -- Chapter 2: Where Did Information Feeds Start? -- The Nature of the Web -- Precursors to RSS -- RSS: An Acronym with Multiple Meanings -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 3: The Content Provider Viewpoint -- Why Give Your Content Away? -- Content to Include in a Feed -- Blogging Tools -- Publicizing Your Information Feed -- Advertisements and Information Feeds -- Summary -- Exercise -- Chapter 4: The Content Recipient Viewpoint -- Access to Information -- Newsreaders and Aggregators -- Finding Information about Interesting Feeds -- Filtering Information Feeds -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Storing, Retrieving, and Exporting Information -- Storing Information -- Two Examples of Longer-Term Storage -- Retrieving Information -- Exporting Information -- Summary -- Part II: The Technologies -- Chapter 6: Essentials of XML -- What Is XML? -- XML Namespaces -- HTML, XHTML, and Feed Autodiscovery -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 7: Atom 0.3 -- Introducing Atom 0.3 -- Atom 0.3 Document Structure -- Using Modules with Atom 0.3 -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 8: RSS 0.91 and RSS 0.92 -- What Is RSS 0.91? -- The RSS 0.91 Document Structure -- Introducing RSS 0.92 -- The RSS 0.92 Document Structure -- Summary -- Exercises.

Chapter 9: RSS 1.0 -- What Is RSS 1.0? -- The RSS 1.0 Document Structure -- Some Real-World RSS 1.0 -- Summary -- Exercise -- Chapter 10: RSS 1.0 Modules -- RSS Modules -- The RSS 1.0 Official Modules -- Including Other Modules in RSS 1.0 Feed Documents -- Summary -- Chapter 11: RDF: The Resource Description Framework -- What Is RDF? -- RDF Vocabularies -- RDF Toolkits -- Summary -- Chapter 12: RSS 2.0: Really Simple Syndication -- What Is RSS 2.0? -- The RSS 2.0 Document Structure -- RSS 2.0 Extensions -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Looking Forward to Atom 1.0 -- Why Another Specification? -- What Is Atom? -- Summary -- Part III: The Tools -- Chapter 14: Feed Production Using Blogging Tools -- Movable Type -- WordPress -- Blojsom -- Summary -- Chapter 15: Aggregators and Similar Tools -- Overview of Desktop Aggregators -- Individual Desktop Aggregators -- Summary -- Exercise -- Chapter 16: Long-Term Storage of Information -- Choosing an Approach to Long-Term Storage -- Characteristics of Long-Term Storage -- Software to Support Long-Term Storage -- Summary -- Chapter 17: Online Tools -- Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Tools -- Choosing Between Individual Online Tools -- Summary -- Chapter 18: Language-Specific Developer Tools -- Python Tools -- PHP Tools -- Java Tools -- The Redland RDF Application Framework -- XSLT Tools -- Perl Tools -- Miscellaneous Tools -- Useful Sources -- Summary -- Part IV: The Tasks -- Chapter 19: Systematic Overview -- Before You Start -- States and Messages: Exchanges Between Client and Server -- Communication Layers -- Server Producer: Producing Feeds -- Client Consumer: Viewing Feeds -- Client Producer: Blogging APIs -- Server Consumer -- Architectural Approaches -- Summary -- Exercise -- Chapter 20: Modeling Feed Data -- Model or Syntax? -- The Conceptual Feed -- Common Features Among Formats -- An XML Model.

An Object-Oriented Model: XML to Java -- The RDF Models -- A Relational Model -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 21: Storing Feed Data -- The Document Object Model -- Creating a SQL Database for Feeds -- RDF in Relational Databases -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 22: Consuming Feeds -- Consumer Strategies -- Reading Feed Data -- Feed/Connection Management Subsystem -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 23: Parsing Feeds -- A Target Model -- Parsing Feeds as XML -- The Trouble with Feeds -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 24: Producing Feeds -- Content Management Systems -- SynWiki: A Minimal CMS -- Summary -- Exercise -- Chapter 25: Queries and Transformations -- Paths and Queries -- Graphic Display: SVG in a Very Small Nutshell -- Summary -- Exercise -- Chapter 26: The Blogging Client -- Talking to the Server with a Variety of Clients -- The Language of HTTP -- Protocols for Blogging -- Summary -- Exercise -- Chapter 27: Building Your Own Planet -- Why Aggregate? -- Planet Core -- Implementing a Planet -- Running the Planet -- Summary -- Chapter 28: Building a Desktop Aggregator -- Desktop Aggregator Overview -- System Construction -- Summary -- Chapter 29: Social Syndication -- What Is Society on the Web? -- Social Software and Syndication -- A Personal Knowledgebase -- Summary -- Exercise -- Chapter 30: Additional Content -- Syndicated Broadcasting -- Summary -- Chapter 31: Loose Ends, Loosely Coupled -- Finding Feeds -- GRDDL -- Inter-Site Communication -- Defining Extension Modules -- Other Resources -- Summary -- Chapter 32: What Lies Ahead in Information Management -- Filtering the Flood of Information -- A User-Centric View of Information -- How Users Can Best Access Data -- Revisions of Information Feed Formats -- Non-Text Information Delivered Through Information Feeds -- Summary -- Appendix A: Answers to Exercises -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 8.

Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21 -- Chapter 22 -- Chapter 23 -- Chapter 24 -- Chapter 25 -- Chapter 26 -- Chapter 29 -- Appendix B: Useful Online Resources -- Specification Documents for Information Feeds -- Resource Description Framework -- Modules and Other Related Resources -- Online Validators and Other Tools -- Resources Looking at the Bigger Picture -- Mailing Lists -- Appendix C: Glossary -- Index.