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--- In aggregators@yahoogroups.com, "tsidhuus" <tsidhuus@...> wrote:
> We need to build a RSS reader in our application. I wanted to
> understand when I query a RSS feed do I get entries from the beginning
> of time that RSS feed was created.

When you request a feed, you usually get from 10-15 of the most recent
items from that publisher. Although there's no prohibition against
including more items (or going back forever), I'm not aware of any
publisher doing that. The bandwidth hit would be huge.




Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:33 pm

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Hi, I found this information difficult to get and found this group, so asking the question. We need to build a RSS reader in our application. I wanted to ...
tsidhuus
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Mar 19, 2008
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... There is no mechanism to do this in RSS. None at all. ... Nor this....
Bill Kearney
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Mar 19, 2008
11:57 am

... When you request a feed, you usually get from 10-15 of the most recent items from that publisher. Although there's no prohibition against including more...
rcade
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Mar 19, 2008
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... The difficulty is that there is no prescribed mechanism in RSS itself for what should be returned, or how to query it. RSS is just a format. However, there...
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