RSS Tutorials - Introduction to RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Basics.

     A collection of 7 FAQs on RSS (Really Simple Syndication). Clear answers are provided with tutorial samples on introduction to Website syndication technology; RSS and Atom syndication file standards and versions. Topics included in this collection are :

What Is RSS (Really Simple Syndication)?

How Many Versions of RSS Language Standard?

What Is Atom?

What Are Main Differences between RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0?

What Is the Icon for RSS and Atom?

What RSS 2.0 Files Look Like?

What Atom 1.0 Files Look Like?

What Is RSS (Really Simple Syndication)?

     RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is technology that can be used on Websites to syndicate and distribute frequently updated content via news aggregators. Syndication benefits both users and publishers by helping users consume more information instead of visiting multiple web sites to see what's new, users can scan headlines or article summaries and click to read the full text. 

     Some publishers also make their entire content (whether full-text or audio/video) available for users to access via RSS and view in other applications. It's "really simple" for publishers to make content available in this format. RSS is also a special XML based language used to create RSS files on Websites that contains headlines or summaries of news, or site contents to allow news aggregators to fetch and redistribute.

What Is the Relation between RSS and XML?

     XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a generic markup language to organize generic information into a structured document with embedded tags. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an extension of XML designed to organize headlines of news or summaries of Web pages to feed to news aggregators.

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