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Preface

Preface

This book is about RSS, the massively popular content-syndication technology. From distributing headlines across web sites and delivering complete content to specialist applications, to providing the building blocks of the Semantic Web, RSS is one of the Internet's fastest growing technologies.

There are over one million RSS feeds available across the Web; this book shows you how to read them and how to create your own. This book covers:

  • RSS 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, and 2.0 in detail

  • How to create and parse feeds

  • Extending RSS through modules

  • RDF and the Semantic Web

  • Web-based aggregators

  • Desktop readers

  • Publish and Subscribe



    		Preface
    		Audience
    		Assumptions This Book Makes
    		Conventions Used in This Book
    		Comments and Questions
    		Acknowledgments
    		Chapter 1. Introduction
    		Chapter 2. Content-Syndication Architecture
    		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