Introduction to RSS Feeds

Description:Syndicated news feeds are a way of distributing news content from a single source across the internet often as RSS or RDF format XML feeds. These feeds can then be tapped into by browsers and web sites and the information they carry can be placed on a web site using server-side scripts. As the feed provider updates the content so the content of the web page that the feed is displayed on changes with it. Research has shown that web masters hoping to make good revenues from affiliate linking on web sites achieve a great deal more by establishing a core following for their web site by providing visitors with continually updated content and therefore reasons to keep returning. So we've established that we need these feeds but what do the terms RSS and XML mean?