SFEED(5)

NAME
sfeed - feed format

SYNOPSIS
sfeed

DESCRIPTION
sfeed(1) writes the feed data in a TAB-separated format to stdout.

TAB-SEPARATED FORMAT FIELDS
The items are output per line in a TAB-separated format.

For the fields title, id and author each whitespace character is replaced by a SPACE character. Control characters are removed.

The content field can contain newlines and these are escaped. TABs, newlines and '\' are escaped with '\', so it becomes: '\t', '\n' and '\\'. Other whitespace characters except spaces are removed. Control characters are removed.

The order and content of the fields are:

1. timestamp
    UNIX timestamp in UTC+0, empty if missing or on a parse failure.

2. title
    Title text, HTML code in titles is ignored and is treated as plain-text.

3. link
    Link

4. content
    Content, can have plain-text or HTML code depending on the content-type field.

5. content-type
    "html" or "plain" if it has content.

6. id
    RSS item GUID or Atom id.

7. author
    Item, first author.

8. enclosure
    Item, first enclosure.

9. category
    Item, categories, multiple values are separated by the '|' character.

SEE ALSO
sfeed(1), sfeed_plain(1)

AUTHORS
Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>

CAVEATS
If a timezone for the timestamp field is not in the RFC822 or RFC3339 format it is not supported and the timezone is interpreted as UTC+0.