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Setting multiple RSS feeds up in a PointAbout iPhone/Android application:

Each feed corresponds to the icon at the bottom of the application.  For example, this example is for the “Business” feed.  Each icon in the app corresponds to its own feed.  The more feeds you want to include in the app, the more icons we’ll have.  Here’s how to format a feed:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”iso-8859-1″?>
<?xml-stylesheet href=”/css/rss20.xsl” type=”text/xsl”?>
<rss xmlns:pheedo=”http://www.pheedo.com/namespace/pheedo” version=”2.0″ xmlns:dc=”http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/”>
<channel>
<title><![CDATA[Business]]></title> This corresponds to “Business” in the left image title bar, above
<!– title><![CDATA[Business News & Economic Policy]]></title –> (This is not used by PointAbout, but must be in the feed)
<link><![CDATA[http://www.samplesite.com/business/index.html]]></link> (This is also not used by PointAbout, but must be in feed)
<item> This tag is just duplicated for as many items as you have.
<title><![CDATA[ In the Chevy Malibu, GM's Pride and Its Challenge ]]></title> This is the first item in the list (just duplicate the item tag for other items)
<link>http://feeds.samplesite.com/click.phdo?i=53695</link>  This maps to the “Web Link” button on the 2nd image to the right, in the header bar.
<guid isPermaLink=”false”>company_name_12345</guid> Globally unique identifier for item (Must be globally unique among all RSS feeds worldwide.  Can also be an HTML link, since that would be unique)
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:19:55 EDT</pubDate> Publish date, displayed to right of Title on the image at left
<geo:lat>37.86885</geo:lat> If your item has a physical location, include the latitude here. Click here for more info on GeoRSS.
<geo:long>-122.27293</geo:long> If your item has a physical location, include the longitude here.
<description><![CDATA[
Consumer prices rose at a surprisingly steep rate in June and the nation's factories continued to pull back production, according to new data released today that affirm that the economy remains weak but is not entering a dangerous cycle of falling prices.
<br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
<br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
<a href="http://ads.samplesite.com/click.phdo?s=53695dc3777fd5113da50d3c72ca99a5&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.samplesite.com/img.phdo?s=53695dc3777fd5113da50d3c72ca99a5&p=1"/></a>
]]></description>  This tag is the “meat” of the RSS feed.  The CDATA tag allows for this to be HTML and it can be as short or as long as you’d like.  Also, if you include an HTML link in this description tag, it will activate the web slide-in.  So you could, for example, include a link to a Google Map, as follows:  <a href =”http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1600+Pennsylvania+Ave+NW,+Washington,+DC%E2%80%8E&sll=38.900251,-77.036562&sspn=0.035135,0.103254&ie=UTF8&ll=38.89935,-77.036626&spn=0.008784,0.025814&z=16&iwloc=A”>The White House</a> and it would display in the description area (right image above) as a link.  When clicked, it would open up a web slider with the Google Map, which could then be closed, and the user would be back in the description area.
</item>
</channel>
</rss>