What Is RDF Site Summary (RSS)?
RDF Site Summary (RSS) is a lightweight multipurpose extensible metadata description and syndication format. RSS is an XML application, conforming to the W3C's RDFSpecification. RSS is extensible via XML-namespace and/or RDF based modularization.
An RSS summary, at a minimum, is a document describing a "channel" consisting of URL-retrievable items. Each item consists of a title, link, and brief description. While items have traditionally been news headlines, RSS has seen much repurposing in its short existence. Examples: |