good day dear linux-experts and users hello dear community,
Managing Custom RSS Feeds; How to incorporate images and text into a Custom RSS Feed?
is this possible?
well i heard about the feature of incorporating both - text and images into a RSS-FEED.
is this doable - with
a. every feed
b. certain feets
can you show me how to display images from RSS feed?
Which feed-reader should i use ?
say
according to this source of description
http://www.w3schools.com/rss/rss_tag_image.asp
we can see that this is supported:
The
<image> element allows an image to be displayed when aggregators present a feed.
Tips and Notes
Note: The image must be of type GIF, JPEG or PNG.
Child Elements of <image>
Tag Description
Code:
<description> Optional. Specifies the text in the HTML title attribute of the link around the image
<height> Optional. Defines the height of the image. Default is 31. Maximum value is 400
<link> Required. Defines the hyperlink to the website that offers the channel
<title> Required. Defines the text to display if the image could not be shown
<url> Required. Specifies the URL to the image
<width> Optional. Defines the width of the image. Default is 88. Maximum value is 144
Example
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>W3Schools Home Page</title>
<link>http://www.w3schools.com</link>
<description>Free web building tutorials</description>
<image>
<url>http://www.w3schools.com/images/logo.gif</url>
<title>W3Schools.com</title>
<link>http://www.w3schools.com</link>
</image>
<item>
<title>RSS Tutorial</title>
<link>http://www.w3schools.com/rss</link>
<description>New RSS tutorial on W3Schools</description>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
Guess that it is important that the rss-source
offers an image.
without that - it would be impossible to show one...
