Really Simple Syndication

Really Simple Syndication is a member group of the RSS family for web syndication. The specification was adapted from Dave Winer's Scripting News and Netscape's RSS 0.91 and is maintained by an advisory board at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. The commonly found versions of Really Simple Syndication are 0.9x and 2.0.x. The specification states that any RSS 0.9x is a valid RSS 2.x document, but not vice versa. Note that RSS 1.0 is an incompatible standard based on the W3C's Resource Description Framework.

Related Topics:
RSS family - Dave Winer - Netscape - RSS 1.0 - W3C - Resource Description Framework

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The status of Really Simple Syndication as of April 2004 is version 2.0.1.

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RSS 2.0 also has an extension to allow "enclosures".

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