The title of it: <title></title>
The description: <description></description>
The publish date: <pubDate></pubDate>
The mp3 file itself: <enclosure />
The exact location: url=" http://www.mywebsite.com/myaudio.mp3"
The exact length of file: length="4834743"
And the type of file it is: type="audio/mpeg"
A few rules about the tags:
1. There is always a beginning and end tag. Example: <Title></Title>. The exception is in the case of what is called an empty tag. An example of one is the <enclosure /> tag from above. Why? Because an empty tag describes attribute specifications. In our case, the file location, its size, and the type of file it is.
2. They are case sensitive so you can’t have <TITLE>My Program</title>
3. Ending tags always have a slash like this </title>
4. The information between tags is called an element.
5. It’s important to follow the proper pattern and nesting.
The XML above describes one podcast beginning with <item> and ending with </item>
To add a second item, you could copy the code between <item> and </item> and change the specifics. For instance: the title, description, and date would all be different. Plus, your second podcast (.mp3 file) would most likely have different characteristics. As an example:
<enclosure url=”http://www.mywebsite.com/myaudio2.mp3” length=”(whatever this file’s length is)” type="audio/mpeg" />
There. You’ve created all the code you need for a podcast! Now, decide what the name of your RSS file will be and save it to your desktop or a directory you will remember where it is.
Example: MyPodcast.rss
Let me point out that there are other elements you can put into an RSS file. The example above is a very simple model. Go here for a further tutorial on XML.
