RSS Usage Details

RSS Usage Details
Basic knowledge you shall possess

Before continuing to learn, you need to have a basic understanding of the following knowledge:

• HTML/XHTML
• XML/XML namespace

What is RSS?

• RSS refers to Really Simple Syndication (truly Simple combination)
• RSS enables you to aggregate (syndicate) website content
• RSS defines a very simple way to share and view titles and content
• RSS files can be automatically updated
• RSS allows personalization of views for different websites
• RSS is written in XML

RSS document instance

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>    <rss version="2.0">         <channel>    <title>w3cschool Home Page</title>    <link>http://www.shouce.ren</link>    <description>Free web building tutorials</description>    <item>    <title>RSS Tutorial</title>    <link>http://www.shouce.ren/rss</link>    <description>New RSS tutorial on w3cschool</description>    </item>    <item>    <title>XML Tutorial</title>    <link>http://www.shouce.ren/xml</link>    <description>New XML tutorial on w3cschool</description>    </item>    </channel>         </rss>

Why RSS?

RSS is designed to display selected data.

If you do not have RSS, you have to check new content on your website every day. This is too time-consuming for many users. Through RSS feed (RSS is usually called News feed or RSS feed ), users can use RSS aggregators to check your website updates more quickly (RSS aggregators are websites or software used to aggregate and classify RSS feeds ).

Because RSS data is small and can be quickly loaded, it can be easily used by services similar to mobile phones or PDAs.

Websites with similar content (Web-rings) can easily share content on their websites to make these websites better and more valuable.

Who should use RSS?

Network administrators who seldom update content do not need RSS!

RSS is helpful for websites that frequently update content, such:

• News sites-list news titles, dates, and descriptions
• Enterprise-list news and new products
• Calendar-list coming schedules and important dates
• Site update-list updated pages or new pages

The future of RSS

RSS is everywhere!

Thousands of websites are using RSS, and more people recognize its usefulness every day.

Through RSS, information on the internet is easier to find, and website developers can easily spread their content to specific audiences.

RSS advantages