Why do people write XML feeds in .aspx pages?

[Bruce W.1]

I've found a number of people that write XML feeds for .aspx web pages.
Here's one:
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/RSSviaXmlTextWriter.asp?print=true

Why is this? What's the point in putting it in a web page? Wouldn't a
web service .asmx make more sense?

Thanks for your opinion.

 

[Ivan Demkovitch]

Because internet is not only about .asmx.

IMO you should have .asmx AND RSS. RSS is old and well known. Code in lot of
different languages written
to read it. Also this is a "standard" when .asmx is just your creation and
unique code has to be written to use it...

take http://www.newsisfree.com/ for example...

 

[Chris Jackson]

Well, not exactly. Asmx is simply a server side implementation that allows
you to emit SOAP (which is definitely a standard) easily. Aspx is a server
side implementation that allows you to emit plain text easily. Typically,
that plain text is HTML, but it isn't always. In the case of an RSS feed,
it's XML that complies to another standard.

RSS is a great way to keep up to date on news, blogs, and other sources of
data.You could achieve the same thing using SOAP (via Asmx), but you would
just be adding an XML SOAP envelope to the RSS XML that you emit - the idea
here is to limit bandwidth to just what is relevant.