RSS feed need to be XML?

[csiwa28]

We have a calendar of events database and we would like to dynamically create a RSS feed showing the 5 most recently added events. I'm starting to learn RSS so I just want to make sure this is ok.

Does the feed have to be a XML file or can I create an ASP file pulling the events from the database and as long as I have "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>" and use XML tags it'll be fine?

Thank you in advance.

 

[Sheco]

Remember that the feed reader isn't going to "read" your ASP source code. The reader will request it from the server, but the server will execute the ASP source code and return the OUTPUT to the reader. As long as the output of your ASP is valid RSS then you should be fine.

 

[csiwa28]

Sheco, thanks for the explanation. That definitely makes things easier.