Testing the RSS Feed

To test a feed, we log into a community site in an administrator role and select a section to be published as a web service.

There are two ways to test the created RSS feed. The first method involves using a news aggregator that displays RSS content on the desktop. The following screenshot is an example of reading the Events section of the default CSK using RSS Bandit. RSS Bandit is a free news aggregator written in .NET and available from http://www.rssbandit.org/. The RSS feed for the Events section would be http://server/CommunityStartKit/Events/communityRSS.aspx.

A second way to test the RSS feed is to use a validator. One such validator is available at http://feedvalidator.org. Simply enter the URL to your feed, and the feed validator will inspect the XML to see if it meets the RSS 2.0 specification. If you are working on a server that is not on the network and have a Python interpreter installed, you can download the sourcecode for the validator to run locally....