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What is RSS?

RSS is simply a way to use XML formatted files to represent news or synicated information. Some refer to RSS as RDF Site Summary and others as Real Simple Synication. The first company that created an rss spec was  ?netscape, with RSS 0.90.

You can find RSS in news sites detailing news dynamic content, you can find it in portals such as yahoo presenting dynamic information, and etc. Although there are 7 different RSS formats only 6 are used at this time; namely 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0, and 2.0. 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, and 2.00 are non RDF RSS versions with 1.0 being the RDF version of RSS.

What Does RSS Look Like?

Adapted from XML.com's Feed, version 0.91 of RSS

<rss version="0.91">
  <channel>
    <title>XML.com</title>
    <link>http://www.xml.com/</link>
    <description>XML.com features a rich mix of information and services
 for the XML community.</description>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <item>
      <title>Normalizing XML, Part 2</title>
      <link>http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/04/normalizing.html</link>
      <description>In this second and final look at applying relational
 normalization techniques to W3C XML Schema data modeling, 
Will Provost discusses when not to normalize, the scope of uniqueness 
and the fourth and fifth normal forms.</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The .NET Schema Object Model</title>
      <link>http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/04/som.html</link>
      <description>Priya Lakshminarayanan describes in detail the use 
of the .NET Schema Object Model for programmatic manipulation of 
W3C XML Schemas.</description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>SVG's Past and Promising Future</title>
      <link>http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/04/svg.html</link>
      <description>In this month's SVG column, Antoine Quint looks 
back at SVG's journey through 2002 and looks forward to 2003.</description>
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>

and the same information in 1.0 RSS

<rdf:RDF
  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/"
>
  <channel rdf:about="http://www.xml.com/cs/xml/query/q/19">
    <title>XML.com</title>
    <link>http://www.xml.com/</link>
    <description>XML.com features a rich mix of information and services 
for the XML community.</description>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <items>
      <rdf:Seq>
        <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/04/normalizing.html"/>
        <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/04/som.html"/>
        <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/04/svg.html"/>
      </rdf:Seq>
    </items>
  </channel>
  <item rdf:about="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/04/normalizing.html">
    <title>Normalizing XML, Part 2</title>
    <link>http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/04/normalizing.html</link>
    <description>In this second and final look at applying relational
 normalization techniques to W3C XML Schema data modeling, Will 
Provost discusses when not to normalize, the scope of uniqueness 
and the fourth and fifth normal forms.</description>
    <dc:creator>Will Provost</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2002-12-04</dc:date>    
  </item>
  <item rdf:about="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/04/som.html">
    <title>The .NET Schema Object Model</title>
    <link>http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/04/som.html</link>
    <description>Priya Lakshminarayanan describes in detail the use of 
the .NET Schema Object Model for programmatic manipulation of W3C XML Schemas.</description>
    <dc:creator>Priya Lakshminarayanan</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2002-12-04</dc:date>    
  </item>
  <item rdf:about="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/04/svg.html">
    <title>SVG's Past and Promising Future</title>
    <link>http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/04/svg.html</link>
    <description>In this month's SVG column, Antoine Quint looks back
 at SVG's journey through 2002 and looks forward to 2003.</description>
    <dc:creator>Antoine Quint</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2002-12-04</dc:date>    
  </item>
</rdf:RDF>

and finally the 2.0 RSS version of the same information

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
  <channel>
    <title>XML.com</title>
    <link>http://www.xml.com/</link>
    <description>XML.com features a rich mix of information and services 
for the XML community.</description>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <item>
      <title>Normalizing XML, Part 2</title>
      <link>http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/04/normalizing.html</link>
      <description>In this second and final look at applying 
relational normalization techniques to W3C XML Schema data modeling,
 Will Provost discusses when not to normalize, the scope of uniqueness 
and the fourth and fifth normal forms.</description>
      <dc:creator>Will Provost</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2002-12-04</dc:date>    
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The .NET Schema Object Model</title>
      <link>http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/04/som.html</link>
      <description>Priya Lakshminarayanan describes in detail the use of 
the .NET Schema Object Model for programmatic manipulation of W3C XML Schemas.</description>
      <dc:creator>Priya Lakshminarayanan</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2002-12-04</dc:date>    
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>SVG's Past and Promising Future</title>
      <link>http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/04/svg.html</link>
      <description>In this month's SVG column, Antoine Quint looks back
 at SVG's journey through 2002 and looks forward to 2003.</description>
      <dc:creator>Antoine Quint</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2002-12-04</dc:date>    
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>

External links

• Building a RSS feed, step by step. And how to use it.

Programmers Heaven resources

• XML Development Messageboard

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