Howto Create an RSS 2.0 Feed Updated on May 26, 2020 By Pete Freitag If you can learn HTML, you can easily learn how to build your own RSS 2.0 feeds. I'll take you through the steps to creating an RSS feed from scratch. Step 1: XML Declaration Since RSS 2.0 must validate as XML, the first line in your rss feed must be the XML declaration. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> The encoding is opti