The process of consuming web feeds was discussed in the last chapter; here the process of producing those feeds is examined in detail. Producing feeds, from a technical perspective, is simply taking the content you already have, and instead of encapsulating it in HTML, encapsulating it in XML following a specified format.
This chapter covers the following:
Why feeds are important
Standard feed formats
Testing feeds
1Caching
Blog feeds
Trackbacks
The chapter then provides a simple real-world example of providing feeds for a sample retail store.