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Chapter 2. Content-Syndication Architecture

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

?Alexander Solzhenitsyn

In this chapter, we'll look at how RSS feeds are structured: both the feed itself and the way RSS fits into the whole web publishing picture. First, let's look at the structure of publishing on the Web.



    		Preface
    		Chapter 1. Introduction
    		Chapter 2. Content-Syndication Architecture
    		2.1 Information Flow and Other Metaphors
    		2.2 And at the Other End
    		2.3 Structuring the Feed Itself
    		2.4 Serving RSS
    		Chapter 3. The Main Standards
    		Chapter 4. RSS 0.91, 0.92, and 2.0 (Really Simple Syndication)
    		Chapter 5. Richer Metadata and RDF
    		Chapter 6. RSS 1.0 (RDF Site Summary)
    		Chapter 7. RSS 1.0 Modules
    		Chapter 8. RSS 2.0 (Simply Extensible)
    		Chapter 9. Using Feeds
    		Chapter 10. Directories, Web Aggregators, and Desktop Readers
    		Chapter 11. Developing New Modules
    		Chapter 12. Publish and Subscribe
    		Appendix A. The XML You Need for RSS
    		Appendix B. Useful Sites and Software
    		Colophon