Create & Manage Podcast Feeds

Topic 2 - Discussion of XML Code with iTunes Tags

If you want your podcast to be fully integrated with Itunes, it is important to have your xml code include the proper tags for use in Itunes.

A really good description of all of those codes in a feed can be found here: description of xml with Itunes tags.

Basically your rss feed code has these parts:

<rss>
<channel>
</item>
<item>
</item>
</channel>



The rss & channel codes at the top would contain the general podcast information, and would happen once in the feed code.


[Click to enlarge - Right Click to Zoom] Here is an example of a screen shot of xml code (written in WordPad) that contains the opening and closing code. Notice the spot reserved in the middle for the items.


The item codes would contain information about each episode with the podcast. You would have one 'set' for each episode. This is where the trick in managing occures. You basically have a Header/footer to your code, with a variable number of items.


[Click to enlarge - Right Click to Zoom]Here is a screenshot of the same code with 2 item sections added for 2 podcast episodes.

This is a basic overview of xml with itunes tags. Be sure to read the above tutorial and then move on to Topic 3!

posted by Brad @ 10:36 PM