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A Web site which dynamically updates itself with the latestnews and information? Nope, it's not as far-fetched as it sounds. Asthis article demonstrates, all you need is a little imagination, acouple of free RDF files and some PHP glue.

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By: icarus, (c) Melonfire

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February 27, 2002

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And that's about it for the moment. If you're interested in learning more about the technologies and techniques discussed in this article, you might want to consider visiting the following links:

The RSS 1.0 specification, at http://www.purl.org/rss/1.0/

An RSS timeline, at http://backend.userland.com/stories/rss091

The W3C's Web site on RDF, at http://www.w3.org/RDF/

A discussion of SAX and DOM programming in PHP, at http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/Using-PHP-with-XML-part-1/

A discussion of XSLT transformation with PHP, at http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/XSL-Transformation-With-PHP-And-Sablotron/

A discussion of PHP classes, at http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Back-To-Class/

A discussion of XML basics, at http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/XML-Basics-part-1/

A discussion of XSLT basics, at http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/XSL-Basics-part-1/

The PHP manual page for SAX functions, at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php

The PHP manual page for XSLT functions, at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xslt.php

Till next time...stay healthy! Note: All examples in this article have been tested on Linux/i386 with Apache 1.3.12 and PHP 4.1.1. Examples are illustrative only, and are not meant for a production environment. Melonfire provides no warranties or support for the source code described in this article. YMMV!