Summary

This hour introduced you to one of the more popular XML-based technologies in use today, RSS. Even though RSS has a somewhat confusing history, the resulting technology is relatively easy to understand and employ. Fortunately, you have lots of options when it comes to how you use RSS. If nothing else, as a web user you'll likely find RSS to be extremely useful as a means of keeping tabs on web sites that you might otherwise never take the time to visit regularly. Taking things a step further, you may elect to provide your own RSS news feeds for your own web pages. You might even get more ambitious and expand on the example in this chapter to develop a more full-featured news aggregator of your own. Regardless of how you choose to use RSS, it's an XML technology that is worth exploring and keeping tabs on.