Entries from RSS4Lib tagged with 'standards'
RSS and Atom Comparison
What's the difference between RSS and Atom? Both are XML formats, both are in common use, and most people who read RSS feeds don't need to know the technical differences between them. Atom was designed to resolve the incompatibilities among...
RSS: The Shipping Container of the Internet
Not too long ago, I read a fascinating book about international shipping. No, I'm serious: Marc Levinson's The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, published in 2006 (which happens to have been...
Best Practices for Building RSS 2.0 Feeds
Like many standards, the RSS 2.0 Specification provides detailed instructions for what elements must or may be in an RSS feed and, in broad terms, how to format them. However, the specification does not -- nor should it -- provide...
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