Active Web Reader - Working With Feeds

What are Styles?

Styles determine how the feeds are presented to you. Feeds are basically XML (Extended Markup Language) based formats. Such XML files contain the feed's content and are generally quite cryptic to read. Styles are used to transform XML data to HTML for presentable web pages. Active Web Reader uses Extensible Style-sheet Language Transformations (XSLT) to define the transformation from XML to HTML.

The advantage of using such a technique is that if the XSTL applied to an XML is changed, the HTML produced after transformation also changes. In other words, by changing XSTL, we can change the web page's look to suit the reading choice of different users. Active Web Reader, by default, provides two styles. See how to select style for RSS feed.

If you are a web developer and are aware of XML, XSLT and HTML then you can also create your own XSLT for use with Active Web Reader. All XSLT files are located in the Styles folder where Active Web Reader is installed. You can also use one of the existing XSLT files as templates to build your own. Simply copy your style in the Styles folder and Active Web Reader will make it available for you to select and use.