How to create RSS feed in Java?

Could Quora's RSS feeds be used to create a custom feed for Quora that provided many of the features being requested?

• At the minimum I feel you could use an RSS feed reader to meet my basic feed requirements currently lacking in Quora: a list of all activity from my followers and topics in chronological order. I know next to nothing about RSS feeds. Could you create a custom RSS parser that could do higher order operations like sorting or grouping, filtering or highlighting?

• Answer:

  Update: the RSS feed features explained here are currently disabled, not sure if there are plans to recover them. 's answer gave me the confidence to try RSS feeds as a replacement for my Quora feed and I thought I'd report back on my experiences. It's important to understand my main goal: I wanted to make sure I got all the activity for topics and people I wanted to follow... perhaps an unusual expectation. When I found out the I went hunting for a personal workaround. I first tried a couple of online RSS feed readers, including the Google Reader Will mentioned. But I couldn't figure out how to get timely updates... there was too much of a delay for my taste. I had some experience with tying RSS feeds into my email program which were typically timely but each discovery played a ping. It was great for RSS feeds I wanted to keep a close eye on but a bit much for everything else. So I went on a hunt for a free desktop RSS reader. I found an application called RSS Bandit that seemed to fit the bill (although it is a bit buggy in places and is certainly not the end-all-be-all). I plugged in the RSS feeds for the topics and people I wanted to follow and off I went. Here's a sample of what my feed looks like now: There are many compromises that one must accept with this reader. The biggest perhaps is no comments on the feed. I have to click on the item to pull it up in a browser and see if there are comments and then read them. I also don't see the number of upvotes (which may not be a bad thing, I can make my own judgments before deciding to click to Quora to upvote or comment). I also get duplicates if a question is tagged with multiple topics that I am following... but I've learned how to filter out noise pretty well as many of us have in this "information age." There are some additional features that may interest some. I can pull up a panel on the left to show content just from a single topic or individual. I can mark some items as read and some as unread and then refresh to clear out the read items. I can determine some feeds as high priority and turn on both an audible and on screen pop-up that will appear whenever new content comes up for that item. And in my taskbar there is a small icon that tells me whenever any new content is in the queue. So now I typically park my browser on the Quora notifications page. An interesting impact of this approach is that I bypass almost any Views being registered for my activity since most Views are registered from when an item appears in one of your feeds. The only time a view is registered for me is when I upvote an answer or follow a question (cases where it seems like most people wouldn't care if a view were registered since their presence was already obvious). I'm still experimenting. I still think it must be possible to create a custom RSS feed reader just for Quora that would have some pretty interesting features... maybe fix some of the issues I mentioned above and some of the common complaints about filtering content in the feeds. I just don't have the technical expertise or time to research it. So I'll keep trying this approach while keeping an eye for if there is ever a Quora feed that gives me all the activity for my topics.