What is RSS?
RSS stands for "RDF Site Summary"
or "Rich Site Summary" or "Really Simple Syndication"
depending on different sources or opinions. Simply said, is an XML file
based on W3C's RDF Specification, which allows extensions. It is used
to create a summary document for sites usually containing updates, new
content or news. These XML files could be read directly by aggregators
or newsreaders. Latest version of RSS is 2.0.
Other versions are 1.0,
0.93,
0.92
and maybe others. For a quick intro to RSS you can read this
or for a short history description read this.
To see RSS in action try our demo.
Articles:
Technicaly details:
RSS is an XML document with syndicated content of the sites. Many sites (especially weblogs) offer RSS feeds which are a summary of the site in XML format. This format is:
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Channel title</title>
<link>URL</link>
<description>Channel Description</description>
...
<item>
<title>Title for Syndicating
Content Item #1</title>
<link>Link to Content Item #1</link>
<description>Content Description
#1</description>
...
</item>
...
<item>
<title>Title for Syndicating
Content Item #n</title>
<link>Link to Content Item #n</link>
<description>Content Description
#n</description>
...
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
The complete list of tags available is here.
Also, this format supports extensions thru XML
namespaces. The most common extensions are:
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
xmlns:co="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/company/"
xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
What can you find on this site?
Links to articles and tutorials regarding RSS:
Groups & discussion lists: