RSS <item> Element

Each <item> element defines an article or "story" in the RSS feed.

<item> Element

Consider the following RSS document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0">

<channel>
  <title>tutorialpro.org Homepage</title>
  <link>http://www.tutorialpro.org</link>
  <description>Free Programming Tutorials</description>
  <item>
    <title>RSS Tutorial</title>
    <link>http://www.tutorialpro.org/rss</link>
    <description>tutorialpro.org RSS Tutorial</description>
  </item>
</channel>

</rss>

As mentioned earlier, each <item> element defines an article or "story" in the RSS feed.

The <item> element has three required child elements:

• <title> - Defines the title of the item. (e.g., RSS Tutorial)

• <link> - Defines the hyperlink to the item. (e.g., http://www.tutorialpro.org/rss)

• <description> - Describes the item. (e.g., tutorialpro.org RSS Tutorial)

Additionally, there are several optional child elements of <item>, some of which are introduced below.

<author> Element

The <author> child element is used to specify the email address of the item's author.

In the above RSS document, the author of the item might be:

<author>[email protected]</author>

<comments> Element

The <comments> child element allows linking an item to comments about that item.

In the above RSS document, the comments for the item might be:

<comments>http://www.tutorialpro.org/comments</comments>

<enclosure> Element

The <enclosure> child element allows embedding a media file into an item.

The <enclosure> element has three required attributes:

• url - Defines the URL pointing to the media file

• length - Defines the length of the media file in bytes

• type - Defines the type of the media file

In the above RSS document, the media file included in the item might be:

<enclosure url="http://www.tutorialpro.org/rss/rss.mp3"
length="5000" type="audio/mpeg" />

RSS <item> Reference Manual