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RSS allows you to present your information in a structured way. RSS is very useful if you want to be able to syndicate your content.
RSS is almost like a web service. It allows pure data to be send from one system to another in a very simple and compact form.
RSS feeds are read by RSS readers or RSS parsers. The reader or parser reads the RSS feed and presents it in a usable and human readable format such as perhaps a web page.
For example webmasterword.com has an RSS feed. You can see the structure if the feed by viewing it.
[webmasterworld.com...]
Hope this helps.
Mack.
So the whole computing world will know about feeds soon, and I think it's good to get up to speed on it now. Microsoft intends to call the function "webfeeds" rather than limiting the label just to one technology like RSS.
Note that WebmasterWorld makes our front page stories available thorugh an RSS feed at:
[webmasterworld.com...]
If you are like me and don't often check the Home Page here, the feed is just awesome for breaking news and quality threads that I might otherwise miss.
Was this what you used or is there anothet tool in Vista for this?
Mack.
No matter, when Vista finally breaks, new PCs will also come with IE7. To what degree the browser is going to actually be detached from the OS is still to be seen -- as well as how search and browsing are going to be integrated into the OS is also an interesting question.
The main point I wanted to make was that RSS is poised to make a big jump into the mainstream -- even going to the most casual computer user. Soon the question "what is RSS" will sound like "what is email?"
Mack.
Say if XML is your entire kitchen full of ingredients from which anything can be made. RSS is a recipe for a peanut-butter sandwich. You can make as many sandwiches as you want, but they're always 2 breads with PB in between.
RSS is an XML sandwich.
and xsl is like a toaster
