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Source: http://schwehr.org/blog/attachments/2009-07/sample.georss

1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2. <rss version="2.0" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
3.   <!-- Some inline comments courtesy of cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html -->
4.   <channel>
5.   <title>Your Expedition</title><!-- The name of the channel. It's how people refer to your service. -->
6.   <link>http://www.your-website.com</link><!--The URL to the HTML website corresponding to the channel. -->
7.   <description>The latest news from the expedition</description><!-- Phrase or sentence describing the channel. -->
8.   <item>
9.     <title>Expedition Launch</title> <!-- The title of the item. -->
10.     <link>http://findingcoral.blogspot.com</link> <!-- The URL of the item. -->
11.     <guid>http://example.com/987654321</guid>  <!-- Supposed to be a URL permalink --><!--canonical id of post, e.g. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9072888815061053156.post-2199967030233584065-->
12.     <description>Some text here</description><!-- The item synopsis. -->
13.     <dc:date>2009-06-08T10:01:39+00:00</dc:date> <!-- optional, dublin core publish date, more usable than rss standard pubDate -->
14.     <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:01:00 GMT</pubDate> <!-- Indicates when the item was published. -->
15.     <geo:lat> 49.307940</geo:lat> <!-- lat of post -->
16.     <geo:long>-123.080560</geo:long> <!-- lon of post -->
17. </item>
18. </channel>
19. </rss>
20.  

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