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Do any of your applications support RSS? What is RSS?
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Our news and event management application, XcNewsPlus, includes a feature for publishing your site content via RSS. RSS is a method for web sites to publicize information about their content in a manner that can quickly and easily be read and understood by various applications. It's basically a variation of a XML. As some point, RSS was an acronym, but it is now used more as a general name to describe several different variations or flavors that all basically accomplish very similar things. Depending on whom you ask, it may have originally stood for "Rich Site Summary" or "Really Simple Syndication". The article "What is RSS?" on the XML.com web site does an excellent job of describing this in more technical details. You can get various RSS readers and install them on your desktop PC. Then when your favorite sites publish new information, the RSS reader on your PC will display it to you right away. It's a great way to stay informed about your favorites sites and look at just the information on the site that interests you without having to actually dig through the site yourself. Or, you can use RSS on your own web site, to pull in information feeds to select and display on your site. Many sites do this to provide a list of news information, without actually having to generate or collate the information directly. You should be able to find a variety of RSS readers on download sites.
xcNewsPlus has the built in capability to generate RSS/XML output. There are no special options or systems you need to configure in order to enable this feature to work. When you want to publish your news article information to other sites, you simply point them to the URL for your site’s RSS page. This would be the NPRSS.asp page on your news site. So the URL would look something like
http://www.example.com/News/NPRSS.asp
(where you would replace example.com with your correct domain for your site). Once you provide the correct URL to your RSS page, the other site will be able to index your articles. You can view the RSS feed on our xcNews Demo site at
http://www.xcent.com/examples/xcnewsplus/news/NPRSS.asp
The RSS/XML page includes information about your site as well as about the articles contained on your site. This information is provided in the RSS lightweight XML format. By publishing the data in this format, it makes it easy for other sites to read and parse information about the news content on your site.
Additional information about RSS can be found at the following sites:
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
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