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An introduction to RSS news feeds |
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Contributed by Howell
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Monday, 12 June 2006 |
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RDF Site Summary (RSS) is catching on as one of the most widely used XML formats on the Web. Find out how to create and use RSS files and learn what they can do for you. See why companies like Netscape, Userland, and Moreover use RSS to distribute and syndicate article summaries and headlines. This article includes sample code that demonstrates elements of an RSS file, plus a Perl example using the module XML::RSS.
What are metadata? RSS files are a type of metadata. Metadata are: - units of information about information.
- commonly used to provide descriptive information about the content, context, and characteristics of data.
HTML keywords and description metatags are examples of metadata, and are used to provide information about Web pages See full article from IBM See RSS 2.0 Specification |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 12 June 2006 )
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