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    Can someone explain this RSS link for me?

    http://news.yahoo.com/

    On the lower left under News via RSS there are links with xml after them. When I click on it I get a page that just shows the codeing like this:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
    - <rss version="2.0">
    - <channel>
    <title>Yahoo! News - Politics</title>
    <link>http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&cid=703</link>
    <description>Yahoo! News - Politics</description>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <lastBuildDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:53:13 GMT</lastBuildDate>
    <ttl>5</ttl>
    - <image>
    <title>Yahoo! News</title>
    <width>142</width>
    <height>18</height>
    <link>http://news.yahoo.com/</link>
    <url>http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142.gif</url>
    </image>
    - <item>
    <title>Bush Plans to Withdraw Troops From Abroad (AP)</title>
    <link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040816/ap_on_el_pr/bush</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="false">ap/20040816/bush</guid>
    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:43:44 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>AP - President Bush's plan to call tens of thousands of U.S. troops home from Europe and Asia could gain him election-year applause from military families, but won't ease the strain on soldiers still battling violent factions in Iraq and Afghanistan.</description>
    </item>

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    Quote Originally Posted by techs
    http://news.yahoo.com/

    On the lower left under News via RSS there are links with xml after them. When I click on it I get a page that just shows the codeing like this:
    What do I need to view this?
    RSS == Really Simple Syndication. A way to publish information using XML. Google should give you several RSS readers to choose from.

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