Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Thu Mar 1 21:35:38 CST 2007
On 1 Mar 2007 at 21:40, Susan Harkins wrote: > I'm interested in RSS -- but I want to make sure I know what I'm getting > into before I go any further. > > I understand what RSS does, basically. I'm wondering, does it send a notice > that a particular site has published new content or does it actually send > the new content too? > Just a notice. > I visit a lot of sites regularly and if RSS isn't going to tell me what the > new content is or where it is, I don't think it's of much use. If it sends > me the new data or a synopsis and a link, that would be mega helpful. That's exactly what it does. The required elements for an RSS feed are: Title - the name of the feed Link - the URL of the website Description - phrase or sentence describing the channel There are a number of optional elements than can be included in the feed. See http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss for all the gory details.