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What does the term rss specification mean?

Simply put, a software module called an XML processor is used to read XML documents and provide access to their content and structure. (It is assumed that an XML processor is doing its work on behalf of another module, called the application). This specification describes the required behavior of an XML processor in terms of how it must read XML data and the information it must provide to the application.

RSS is a dialect of XML and must conform to the XML 1.0 rss specification, as published on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website.
 

DEFINITIONS:

• RSS = Really Simple Syndication = Rich Site Summary = RDF Site Summary

• RSS file = RSS feed = RSS channel = feed = channel
   

• Atom = a format similar to RSS; like RSS the files may also be called feeds or channels
   

• XML = eXtensible Markup Language = the format RSS is written in = important only because RSS may be labeled as XML
   

• RDF = Resource Discovery Framework = the format of RSS version 1.0 = important only because RSS may be labeled as RDF
   

• OPML = Outline Processor Markup Language = an XML format for outlines, which may be used as a way of listing many RSS feeds; see below
  my website is syndicated = my website produces an RSS feed
   

• scraping = when Joe makes an RSS feed for Bob’s website without telling Bob; the feed is called a scraped feed
   

• blog = weblog = log on the web = a journal-type website, many of which produce RSS feeds
   

• RSS reader = news reader = RSS aggregator = a program that can read RSS files

Setting up an rss feed for articles on your Internet business that are automatically sent to visitors interested in those articles who sign up for your feed. Their aggregator will poll your website once an hour for updated articles. No worries about spam here.

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http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml - Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Third Edition) W3C Recommendation 04 February 2004

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