Embed RSS feed technical information

By entering the text [RSS:AddressOfFeed] (where AddressOfFeed is the address of the RSS feed you want to address (including http://) anywhere in a text item on a page, the RSS feed will be embedded on the page. Here we have used [RSS:http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml] to embed the feed from the BBC news front page.

Some feeds (including the one above) can be quite long and may take up more space on your page than you would like. You can optionally limit the number of items in the feed to control this. Below, we have used [RSS:http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml,3] to just display the first 3 items in the feed.

Some more specialised RSS feeds may need a slightly different treatment, especially those where the descriptive text contains embedded html codes not suitable for display in a popup tooltip box. An example of this kind of feed is the Yahoo local weather feed. Below we have used [RSSFull:http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=UKXX0047&u=f] to embed the full version of the Yahoo weather feed for Leeds so that the descriptive html (including images) is shown below the title of the items in the feed. In the case of the Yahoo weather feed, there is only one item! Again, you can also supply an optional limit to the number of items in the feed in the same way as for the [RSS] command.

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