RSS File Management / Creation

[fsa3]

Do most folks here maintain (manually) their own RSS files? Or do you use some type of software? If software, which do you use? If manually, do you update the RSS file everytime you change your site? Less often? More often?

New to RSS and trying to get a pulse on what the common approach is.

[stef25]

have a look at hotscripts.com for rss related scripts

[maximillianos]

Most programming technologies offer tools/libraries to help automate the creation of RSS files. For instance, I use CGI/Perl for most of my sites. I found a great set of libraries called CPAN (search for "CPAN RSS perl"). Easy to install (takes seconds) and easy to code pages to build your RSS files.

Then I just schedule a CRON job that runs every few hours and executes the script. The script of course will be like one of your cgi pages that pulls new content, only instead of writing it to HTML, you write it out in XML using the functions provided in the XML::RSS module from CPAN.

Good luck.