Can I serve RSS in JSON?

Question

I am writing an RSS feed (for fun) and was looking at the spec here.

RSS is a dialect of XML. All RSS files must conform to the XML 1.0 specification, as published on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website.

Obviously this means that I am not serving 'pure' RSS if I choose the JSON option. That said, if I conform to the rest of the spec, is it likely that (customised) readers will be able to parse it?

To put it another way, if I conform to the spec, but using JSON instead of XML is it a usable RSS feed?

edit I am not sure I made myself clear. There is no XML involved. I want to write something akin to RSS (which is XML) using JSON instead. Obviously the readers of such a feed would need to be written to understand the JSON format. I was wondering if this had been done already. Are there services that serve a feed this way? Are there programs that can aggregate/understand this format. Is the RSS spec (sans the XML part) a useful spec to conform to in this case?

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{ "title":"example.com", "link":"http://www.example.com/", "description":"Awesome news about junk", "items":[     {         "title":"An article",         "link":"http://www.example.com/an-article",         "descrition":"Some sample text here",         "pubDate":"2008-10-27 11:06 EST",         "author":"example author",     },     {         "title":"Second",         "link":"http://www.example.com/Seond",         "descrition":"Some sample text here",         "pubDate":"2008-10-25 23:20 EST",         "author":"author mcauthor",     },     {         "title":"third article",         "link":"http://www.example.com/third-article",         "descrition":"Some sample text here",         "pubDate":"2008-10-25 23:18 EST",         "author":"some other author",     } ] }  

Answer 1

No, RSS is an XML-based format, and JSON is an different language rather than some kind of dialect. RSS readers won't understand JSON.

Your question is akin to asking 'Can I speak French in Chinese?'