What is RSS (Really Simple Syndication)?

Simple Information Aggregation (also known as Aggregated Content) is a content packaging and delivery protocol that is widely adopted on the Internet based on the XML standard of RSS. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format for describing and synchronizing website content. It is the most widely used XML application. RSS has established a technology platform for the rapid dissemination of information, making everyone a potential information provider. After publishing an RSS file, the information contained in this RSS feed can be directly called by other sites, and since these data are in a standard XML format, they can also be used in other terminals and services. It is a description and synchronization Format of website content. [1] RSS can be one of the following three explanations: Really Simple Syndication; RDF (Resource Description Framework) Site Summary; Rich Site Summary. But these three explanations all refer to the same Syndication technology.

In essence, RSS and
The main versions of the RSS specification are 0.91, 1.0 and 2.0. Version 0.91 and version 1.0 are completely different, with different styles and different people setting standards. Version 0.91 and version 2.0 are the same. 1.0 is closer
  1. Personalization from diverse sources "
    RSS practical ideas go back to the earliest
    1997-Dave Winer develops scriptingNews. RSS was born.
    1999-Netscape develops RSS 0.90 (supported by scriptingNews). This is simple XML with an RDF header.
    1999-Dave Winer developed scriptingNews 2.0b1 (includes Netscape's RSS 0.90 specificity) at UserLand.
    1999-Netscape develops RSS 0.91. In this version, they removed that RDF header, but included most of the features from scriptingNews 2.0b1.
    1999-UserLand gets rid of scriptingNews and only uses RSS 0.91.
    Netscape stopped development of RSS.
    2000-UserLand releases the official 0.91 specification [4]
    The main goal of the RSS module is to extend the basics
    1.Subscription
    In fact, to subscribe to RSS news content, you must first install an RSS reader. Then add the website that provides the RSS service to the channel of the RSS reader. details as follows:
    1. Choose a valuable RSS feed (called
      An RSS file is a canonical
      1. You can see the title or summary of the article without ads and pictures, so you do nt have to read the full text to know what the article means, saving you time.
      2. RSS reader will automatically update your customized website content to keep the news timely. To subscribe to the news, you can directly click the XML icon on the seo blog, or click the subscribe article to the column author, and the subscription is completed. You can open RSS to read the latest articles every day, without having to open the web page.
      3. Using RSS allows you to customize multiple RSS feeds according to your own preferences. The benefit of this is to collect from multiple news sources and then integrate the news into a single data stream.
      4. After RSS is submitted to the RSS website, it will not only easily lead to website traffic, but also speed up
        RSS marketing belongs to
        The first is the delivery of information to generate advertising revenue. For example, a user subscribes to the content of golf with RSS, then an advertisement for golf-related products will appear accurately under each message, from golf clubs to membership cards.
        The second is to make a personal portal, so that all blogs become reporters and editors of this portal, and use traffic to collect advertising fees. Again, we don't just make RSS tools themselves, because tools are only in their infancy, and they can't sell much money, but we must gather popularity through tools to make a personal portal.
        The third is the unification of multiple platforms, dedicated to the development and construction of a multi-channel, multi-device integrated information service platform, to provide users with anytime, anywhere, any device, personalized information services. Users can use
        It is used to share information between websites.
        With RSS, you register your content at a company called an aggregator.

        How rss works

        One of the steps is to create an RSS document and save it with a .xml suffix. Then upload this file to your website. Next, register through an RSS aggregator. Every day, the aggregator searches the registered website for RSS documents, verifies their links, and displays information about the feed so that customers can link to documents that interest them.

        rss instance 

          <rssversion = "2.0">

 <channel>

 <title> Site title </ title>

 <link> Homepage address </ link>

 <description> description </ description>

 <copyright> Licensing information </ copyright>

 <language> The language used (zh-cn means Simplified Chinese) </ language>

 <pubDate> Time of publication </ pubDate>

 <lastBuildDate> last updated time </ lastBuildDate>

 <generator> Generator </ generator>

 <item>

 <title> Title </ title>

 <link> link address </ link>

 <description> A brief description of the content </ description>

 <pubDate> Published time </ pubDate>

 <category> the catalog </ category>

 <author> Author </ author>

 </ item>

 </ channel>

 </ rss>
        [6]

        rss annotation

        The syntax for writing comments in RSS is similar to the syntax of HTML (a subset of the standard universal markup language): 
          <!-Baidu Encyclopedia->

        XML rss written in XML

        Because RSS is also XML (a subset of the standard universal markup language), keep in mind:
        All elements must have closing tags
        Elements are case sensitive
        Elements must be properly nested
        Attribute value must be quoted
        [7]

        IN OTHER LANGUAGES

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