for Content Publishers and Webmasters - Introducing RSS -
Choosing Content for Your Feeds - Publishing Your Feed - Telling
People About Your Feed - Format Versions and Modules - Which
Format Should I Choose? - Tips for Generating Good Feeds - Feed
Tools - More Information - About this Document Think about all
of the information that you access on the Web on a day-to-day
basis; news headlines, search results, “What’s New”, job
vacancies, and so forth. A large amount of this content can be
thought of as a list; although it probably isn’t in HTML the
information is list-oriented. Most people need to track a number
of these lists, but it becomes difficult once there are more
than a handful of sources. This is because they have to go to
each page, load it, remember how it’s formatted, and find where
they last left off in the list. RSS is an XML-based format that
allows the syndication of lists of hyperlinks, along with other
information, or metadata, that helps viewers decide whether they
want to follow the link.