Following is a portion of the RSS Definition:
RSS is a family of XML file formats for Web syndication used by (amongst
other things) news websites and weblogs. The abbreviation is used to
refer to the following standards:
- Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91)
- RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)
- Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
The technology of RSS allows Internet users to subscribe to
websites that have provided RSS feeds; these are typically sites that
change or add content regularly. To use this technology, site owners
create or obtain specialized software (such as a content management
system) which, in the machine-readable XML format, presents new articles
in a list, giving a line or two of each article and a link to the full
article or post. Unlike subscriptions to many printed newspapers and
magazines, most RSS subscriptions are free. The RSS formats provide web
content or summaries of web content together with links to the full
versions of the content, and other meta-data. This information is
delivered as an XML file called RSS feed, webfeed, RSS stream, or RSS
channel. In addition to facilitating syndication, RSS allows a website's
frequent readers to track updates on the site using an aggregator.
Find the full definition at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS |