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News exchange using RSS files

You've seen a lot of portals that publish in a special field always the latest news from other sites. That is possible due to the RSS (Rich Site Summary) files.

Shorly, RSS is mechanism for news exchange between two sites or between a site and a final user. This technology uses programs (RSS agregators) that can receive automatically and show the latest news from random information channels (RSS feeds). As a result of this you can stay tuned with the latest news from the IT world.

Kaldata.net offers RSS information channels with the news from the site to its members and to all sites that wish to use this functionality.
A good agregator for Windows is FeedReader, безплатен софтуер с отворен код. A syndic8 an open source software. syndic8 is a website with categorized hundreds of information channels.

The RSS files contain simple XML tags as RSS is simple markup language (just for handling text and data), similar to HTML, but based on the standardised by the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) XML (Extensible Markup Language).

These files are also called RDF (Resource Description Framework) - files although that is not quite correct. RDF is recomended by World Wide Web consortium (W3C) and it is being used for modeling meta data for the web resources using URI (Uniform Resource Identifiers). Although quite similar RSS is like a little brother to RDF.

You need to be able to start server-side scripts on your server, hosting your web page. You also need to find or create script that reads the contents of our RDF-file (parser) and to visualize it on your page. You can find scripts like this in freshmeat.net 

Here are some links where you can find more information about RSS and how to use it:




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