What is RSS?

does anyone know what Rss is i have herd the term but i don't know what it is

What is RSS?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content including, but not limited to, blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts. An RSS document (which is called a "feed" or "web feed" or "channel") contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with their favorite web sites in an automated manner that can be piped into special programs or filtered displays.





RSS content can be read using software called an "RSS reader", "feed reader" or an "aggregator". The user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed's link into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process. The reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new content, downloading any updates that it finds.





NB The RSS logo comes from Mozilla makers of the Firefox browser. Icon was introduced in Mozilla Firefox in order to indicate a web feed was present on a particular web page that could be used in conjunction with the Live bookmarks function. Microsoft and Opera have adopted the icon in order to promote a de facto standard.
Reply:Really Simple Syndication
Reply:RSS is a standard format for syndicating content on the Internet. The content can be anything! Often information contained in an RSS feed is syndicated on other sites which expands its reach.





Website visitors love RSS because they choose which feeds they wish to subscribe to, if at any point they are unhapy with the content contained in the RSS feed they simply unsubscribe and no longer receive notification of feed updates.





RSS is really a win, win for both subscribers and publishers.





In order to get a better understanding of how RSS works download an RSS reader or use a web aggregator and subscribe to an RSS feed (they are usually indicated by a small orange icon).
Reply:its a data structure stored in a XML format with specific tag names and displayed using either CSS or XSL





start your XML with:


%26lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?%26gt;


%26lt;?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://.../rss.xsl" ?%26gt;


%26lt;?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="http://.../rss.css"?%26gt;


%26lt;rss version="2.0"%26gt;





then use the tags





%26lt;channel%26gt;


%26lt;title%26gt;


%26lt;link%26gt;


%26lt;description%26gt;





%26lt;item%26gt;


%26lt;title%26gt;


%26lt;link%26gt;


%26lt;description%26gt;
Reply:Vulcan D IS A WANKER
Reply:RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content including, but not limited to, blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts.[2] An RSS document (which is called a "feed" or "web feed" [3] or "channel") contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with their favorite web sites in an automated manner that can be piped into special programs or filtered displays.[3]
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