PTCC - Hong Kong Observatory Warnings Web Feed Service

Terms of Use and Some Important Notices

This service is not provided by the HKO directly, but PTCC has been permitted to reproduce and re-disseminate the contents from the Hong Kong Observatory website.
PTCC provides the web feed service on a free of charge basis to individuals and non-profit organizations for non-commercial use. Unless prior permission was given by the webmasters of PTCC, all commercial uses are not allowed.
Those who have already been permitted to reproduce and re-disseminate the contents from the Hong Kong Observatory website by the Hong Kong Observatory can use the feeds and Web Slices above according to the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Hong Kong license.
PTCC and the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (including its servants and agents) makes no warranty, statement or representation, express or implied, with respect to the accuracy, availability, completeness or usefulness of the information, contained herein, and in so far as permitted by law, shall not have any legal liability or responsibility (including liability for negligence) for any loss, damage, or injury (including death) which may result, whether directly or indirectly, from the supply or use of such information.
Please contact the Webmasters of PTCC if you have any questions.

Technical Details

Feed Format

The format of the web feeds produced by PTCC is Atom 1.0. It is a Proposed Standard by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), supported by most feed readers.

Web Slice Format

Web Slice is an open specification by Microsoft. Please refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc304073(VS.85).aspx for details.

Encoding

Web feeds and Web Slices from the Hong Kong Observatory Warnings Web Feed Service are encoded in UTF-8. All feed readers should have supported this encoding.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a web feed?

A web feed is an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document. If you add a feed to your feed reader, you will be notified when there is a new content. It is sometimes incorrectly known as RSS, which is actually one of the feed formats. You may refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed for further information.

How to get a feed reader?

New browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Windows Internet Explorer 7 have built-in feed reading support, other feed readers include Mozilla Thunderbird, Opera, Windows Live.com, My Yahoo!, Google Reader, NewsGator Online, etc.

How to read Web Slice?

Windows Internet Explorer 8 has supported Web Slice already.

Hong Kong Observatory Warnings Web Feed Service