RSS
RSS is an XML-based format that
allows the syndication of lists
of hyperlinks, along with other
information, or metadata, that helps
viewers decide whether they want
to follow the link.
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Why
is RSS a good thing?
What is RSS?
RSS is a Web content Syndication format; its name
is an acronym for
Really Simple Syndication.
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.
Where RSS
might stand for "Rich Site Summary," "RDF Site Summary," "Really
Simple Syndication.
RSS
is a protocol, an application of XML that provides an open method
of syndicating and aggregating Web content. Using RSS files,
you can create a data feed that supplies headlines, links, and
article summaries from your Web site. Users can have constantly
updated content from web sites delivered to them via a news
aggregator, a piece of software specifically tailored to receive
these types of feeds.
RSS
is the hottest thing in Web communication. It powers many popular
applications such as weblogs, knowledge management networks,
and news syndication.
Weblogging,
a term coined by
Jorn Barger
in December 1997, is one of the most popular and fast growing
applications of
RSS. A blog is someone's personal dated 'log' frequently
updated with new information about a particular subject or range
of subjects.
RSS
is changing the world of publishing news and searching for news.
A brief history
The original
RSS, version 0.90, was designed
by Netscape as a format for building portals of headlines to
mainstream news sites. It was deemed overly complex for its
goals; a simpler version, 0.91, was proposed and subsequently
dropped when Netscape lost interest in the portal-making business.
But 0.91 was picked up by another vendor, UserLand Software,
which intended to use it as the basis of its weblogging products
and other web-based writing software.
In the meantime, a third, non-commercial
group split off and designed a new format based on what they
perceived as the original guiding principles of RSS 0.90 (before
it got simplified into 0.91). This format, which is based on
RDF, is called RSS 1.0. But UserLand was not involved in designing
this new format, and, as an advocate of simplifying 0.90, it
was not happy when RSS 1.0 was announced. Instead of accepting
RSS 1.0, UserLand continued to evolve the 0.9x branch, through
versions 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, and finally 2.0.
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Really Simple Syndicate
RSS is used by (among
other things) news websites, weblogs and podcasting.
The abbreviation is variously used to refer
to the following standards:
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Really Simple
Syndication (RSS 2.0)
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Rich Site Summary
(RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)
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RDF Site Summary
(RSS 0.9 and 1.0)
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