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RSS – Really Simple Syndication

RSS – Really Simple Syndication

RSS is a type of web feeds which is a document contains content items, often summaries of stories or weblog posts with web links to longer versions. Web feeds provide web content or summaries of web content together with links to the full versions of the content, and other metadata. RSS in particular, delivers this information as an XML file called an RSS feed, webfeed, RSS stream, or RSS channel. In addition to facilitating syndication, web feeds allow a website’s frequent readers to track updates on the site using an aggregator.

There are two major branches of RSS:

RDF (RSS 1.* )

• RSS 0.90 – original Netscape RSS version
• RSS 1.0 and 1.1 – open format by the “RSS-DEV Working Group” using RDF format

RSS 2.*

• RSS 0.91 – the simplified RSS version released by Netscape
• RSS 0.92-0.94 – expansions of the RSS 0.91 format
• RSS 2.0-2.0.1 – Specified explicit extension mechanism using XML Namespaces

Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed