XML or RSS

Discussion in 'XML & RSS' started by lawdog, Jul 8, 2007.

  1. #1
    I have a website that is requesting content delievery from me. The problem is they want the content delieveried in the way this website recommends. http://www.newsml.org/pages/intro_main.php I have a RSS feed on my site but they seem to be the same thing.

    Can anyone tell me the differnece between the XML and RSS feed.

    I know I sound like an idoit I am juse really confused. Thanks.
     
    lawdog, Jul 8, 2007 IP
  2. Dan Schulz

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    What kind of content delivery are they wanting from you? If it's news, then I can see this being useful, but if it's just a listing of posts/non-news articles/content, then I'd go with an RSS feed.
     
    Dan Schulz, Jul 8, 2007 IP
  3. lawdog

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    It is news. But I dont understand the how the XML and RSS feed are different. Are RSS feeds not in XML?
     
    lawdog, Jul 8, 2007 IP
  4. Dan Schulz

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    RSS feeds are XML meta-data, yes. The people who want your content syndicated merely want to use a format I for one have never heard of before.
     
    Dan Schulz, Jul 8, 2007 IP
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    RSS is a subset of XML, which, in turn, is a subset of SGML.
    They might be able to use your RSS, or they might have some kind of proprietory XML format (that's the beauty of XML - eXtensible Markup Language - anyone can create their own language to fit their unique needs). If latter is the case, you will have to rearrange your data according to their format.
     
    Midano, Jul 9, 2007 IP