Feed will support xcal (xml representation of ical). This allows us to handle event schedules (PBR) in a nice way

Feed will also support the media rss spec as part of our RSS parsing. This allows a nice way to provide links to assets (images, video, etc) within the rss feed in a standardized way.

Both of these require the tag to add additional XML namespaces (xmlns:media, xmlns:xcal).

These are used within an RSS feed like so:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss version="2.0"
    xmlns:xcal="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xcal"
    xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
>
    <channel>
        <title>Live Stream - Schedule</title>
        <link>http://pbr.com/en/bfts/schedule.aspx</link>
        <description>Professional Bull Riders - BFTS</description>
        <language>en-us</language>
        <lastBuildDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2015 09:39:21 EDT</lastBuildDate>
        <docs>http://www.rssboard.org/rss-2-0-9</docs>
        <generator>pbr.com</generator>
        <item>
            <title>Monster Energy Buck Off at the Garden</title>
            <link>http://cms.pbr.com/en/bfts/schedule/2016/2016-new-york.aspx</link>
            <guid>http://cms.pbr.com/en/bfts/schedule/2016/2016-new-york.aspx</guid>
            <source>http://cms.pbr.com/handlers/oddevents.aspx?series=bfts</source>
            <category>bfts</category>
            <description>Madison Square Garden</description>
            <media:content
              url = "http://server/image1.jpg"
              type = "image/jpeg"
              medium = "image">
            </media:content>
            <xcal:dtstart>2015-01-09T18:50:00Z-0600</xcal:dtstart>
            <xcal:dtend>2015-01-10T13:50:00Z-0600</xcal:dtend>
            <xcal:location>New York, NY</xcal:location>
        </item>
    </channel>
</rss>

An exampe calendar item:

<item>
            <title>Monster Energy Buck Off at the Garden</title>
            <link>http://cms.pbr.com/en/bfts/schedule/2016/2016-new-york.aspx</link>
            <guid>http://cms.pbr.com/en/bfts/schedule/2016/2016-new-york.aspx</guid>
            <source>http://cms.pbr.com/handlers/Mobile/oddEvents.ashx?series=bfts</source>
            <category>bfts</category>
            <description>Madison Square Garden</description>
            <media:content
              url = "http://server/image1.jpg"
              type = "image/jpeg"
              medium = "image">
            </media:content>
            <xcal:dtstart>2015-01-09T18:50:00Z-0600</xcal:dtstart>
            <xcal:dtend>2015-01-10T13:50:00Z-0600</xcal:dtend>
            <xcal:location>New York, NY</xcal:location>
</item>

Formatting

Image should be 16x9, and will be cooreced into 16x9 if not correct

All dates must be ISO 8601 formatted.

• essentially, {4 digit year}-{2 digit month}-{2 digit day}T{2 digit hour in 24 hour format}-{2 digit minute}-{2 digit second}Z-{4 digit UTC offset}

C# example:

DateTime utcTime = DateTime.UtcNow;
string strUtcTime = utcTime.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssK");
// output strUtcTime: 2012-09-17T22:02:51Z

xcal:location should be City, State

description should be the venue, or 1 line description of the event

Notes:

Here is the xCal spec

Here an example of using xcal