Eventually we will be adding several more layers to the software here. One of these layers will be some flavor of XML feed. It's not entirely clear at this point how this part of the web is going to evolve. There is some fighting going on now in the various XML camps. Hopefully people can move toward some sort of agreement in a reasonable fashion. RSS is probably the front runner (although there's a great deal of trouble just inside the RSS community itself.) If you're interested in a good look at RSS (Rich Site Summary) you can read about it here."Websites that publish new content regularly usually provide a list of news headline style links to their latest content. In addition to displaying these headlines on their own websites, it is very common for publishers to make them available for syndication, so that other websites or applications can also include their headlines...
...RSS is the name given to a simple and well-established XML format used to syndicate headlines. Once a website creates an RSS file they have created a means to allow others to syndicate their headlines."
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- jim 5-14-2001 7:51 pm