Wednesday, May 9, 2007

MPI104 XML and RSS feeds

What is XML?
XML (EXtensible Markup Language) is a markup langauge much like HTML, it was designed to describe data. It uses a document type definition (DTD) or an XML Schema to describe the data, it was also designed to be self-descriptive. Basically XML was Designed to display data and to focus on how data looks. It was created to structure, store and to send information.
XML is important because it is a complement to HTML.

What is RSS?
Its Important because it makes it convient to keep a current update and be informed on all your blogs and websites by retrieving the lastest content from the sites you are interested in. RSS (Rich Site Summery) is a format for delivering regularyly changing web content ie news sites, blog sites and other similiar sites which allow their RSS feed to be used by whoever wants it. You basically save alot of time by not having to visit each site your a member of individually now their is a great number of sites offering RSS feeds which is also growing rapidly in numbers.

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