Google is considering renewing support for the popular RSS Web publishing format in some of its services, CNET News.com has learned, marking the latest twist in a burgeoning standards war over technology that could change how people read the news.

On the World Wide Web, people can track political polemics, movie star malapropisms and financial fiascos. The trouble is, hopping from site to site in search of the latest Mel Gibson bon mot can waste hours. Now there's a tool that promises to automatically capture just the information you want, when you want, from the Web.

Keeping up with frequently changing Web sites can be as frustrating as trying to keep up with the Joneses. News headlines come and go, and new entries constantly get added to forums, blogs and diaries.

"RSS" is an umbrella term that includes at least seven versions of at least two different but parallel formats, all separated by political problems. The original RSS (RDF Site Summary), Version 0.90, was designed by Netscape using the Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF) Resource Description Format specification as a format for building portals of headlines from news sites.

Learn about displaying XML data in an ASP.NET Web page using the XML Web control to retrieve remote XML data, and about using the Repeater control to emit XML data from a database. With the ever-increasing demands of data sharing among disparate platforms, the use of XML has exploded over the past few years. Realizing this trend, Microsoft made sure to include robust XML support throughout the .NET Framework. For ASP.NET developers, this means that displaying and working with XML data in a Web page has never been simpler. Throughout this article we'll learn about XML and ASP.NET by building an RSS 2.0 syndication engine and an online news aggregator

Those little orange XML icons are everywhere. What will people think if your site doesn't have one? Syndicate your content today with an RSS feed or be the target of jokes at your next party.

Rss is a standard way to share your web site content with others. Rss stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is nothing but a standardized XML markup that describes the content you want to share. Since Rss is a widely accepted format immediately your content becomes ready to be consumed by others. Some examples of Rss feeds are www.asp.net, weblogs.asp.net and www.dotnetbips.com. Dotnetbips.com exposes the list of latest additions through Rss which may be used by other webmasters to put on their sites or directories.

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What does that orange XML button that appears on web sites such as RollingStone.com and News.com mean? Those are two sites (of many) offering RSS feeds to which you can subscribe and receive via your RSS reader. The XML button is the standard indicator that a site has an RSS feed available. However, some sites have RSS feeds, but don't display the XML button. If you don't see the button, search for the site feed on CompleteRSS.

The RSS (Really Simple Syndication) format, an open XML language used to syndicate content is quickly becoming a standard for publishers, content providers, and other organizations to disseminate information. Using the DataGrid and Xml Web Controls, your Web applications can start consuming RSS feeds easily.

KGM Software RssDataReader is a .NET component designed to allow developers to download RSS (Really Simple Syndication) data and convert that data into an easily managed collection of RSS data items.

The Holmok Rss Fetcher is an ASP.NET server control that can grab remote RSS xml documents and display them on an ASP.NET web form. Features include: Works for most RSS (versions 0.9x to 2.x) feeds, Available Source Code, Time interval Fetching. This means the control only fetches the remote every X minutes and caches the results. This means it does not fetch it from the remote source every time the control is rendered, and Its a templated control (similar to datalist or repeater controls) to allow for maximum flexibility in design.

In this article we will examine how to consume an RSS feed via an ASP.NET Web page. Specifically, we'll display the data from the ASPMessageboard.com RSS feed using a DataGrid...

You can offer your readers syndication feeds by category using MT's Multiple Archive Templates feature - credit for this trick goes to Ben Trott.

In this Mother of Perl tutorial, we will write a short Perl script (less than 100 lines) that retrieves an XML RSS file from the Web or local file system and converts it to HTML. Using a Server Side Include (SSI) or similar method, you can easily add news headlines from any number of sources to your Web site.

This is a combination tutorial on and generator for Rich Site Summary (RSS) news feed applets. The RSS Applet Configurator service (http://www.webreference.com/cgi-bin/xml/rssappletconfig.pl) is a Perl driven on-line form that accepts the address of an RSS channel and interface decisions (such as background color and item mouseover color), then generates Java code for a customized applet for the user's site.

A script that is able to search the Google News website with any chosen choice of keyword, and produce a RSS/RDF file containing the latest headlines of the searched keyword. Very useful to create a section of dynamic content on a site.

Along with both the German and French releases, an Italian version as also been released.

A simple and fast script which can be used on a supported server to create dynamic XML RSS feeds using a backend database.

A script that is able to search the Google News website with any chosen choice of keyword, and produce a RSS/RDF file containing the latest headlines of the searched keyword. Very useful to create a section of dynamic content on a site. Free to use.