What is RSS?

Recently i've been seeing RSS on some of sites. What are the use of these. How does it work?

What is RSS?
RSS - Rich Site Summary / Really Simple Syndication is a method to syndicate your site content. This is done by creating an XML document which summarizes specific site content such as news, blog posts or comments and forum threads.





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RSS is an abbreviation for: * RSS, a group of XML based web-content distribution and republication (Web syndication) formats primarily used by news sites and weblogs (blogs).** the Rich Site Summary is also known as RSS 0.9x (although many weblog feeds are full-text, not summaries)** the RDF Site Summary is based on Netscape's short-lived RSS 0.90, which used the W3C Resource Description Framework Standard; this is also known as RSS 1.x** the Really Simple Syndication is also known as RSS 2.
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RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts.





Users of RSS content use programs called feed 'readers' or 'aggregators': the user 'subscribes' to a feed by supplying to their reader a link to the feed; the reader can then check the user's subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it checked, and if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user.





The initials "RSS" are variously used to refer to the following standards:





Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)


Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)


RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)


RSS formats are specified in XML (a generic specification for data formats). RSS delivers its information as an XML file called an "RSS feed", "webfeed", "RSS stream", or "RSS channel".
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