What is RSS?

Briefly, RSS is a web content syndication format. It is a usual data representation format based on XML. Originally, this format was developed particularly for exporting news titles. However, the area of its application can go far beyond this task. You can easily export any information, any content. A remarkable feature of this format is that it provides you with uniform data representation. Any information presented in RSS must correspond to a certain structure and it will be described below. Due to this formalization, the end user gets information in a standard form, which makes it easier to read it and work with it. It is the usability that increases interest to it and make it more and more popular. Currently, hundred thousands of sites already syndicate information worldwide and if you, as a user, want to in touch with news from this or that site, you do not have to visit it all the time. You could subscribe to site news or to a newsletter before, but RSS has some undisputable advantages over e-mail technologies. The most important advantages are the absence of spam and the guarantees of information delivery.