RSS Specifications

Current RSS Specifications:
According to RSS v1 specification RDF Site Summary (RSS) is a lightweight multipurpose extensible metadata description and syndication format. RSS is an XML application, conforms to the W3C's RDF specification and is extensible via XML

Proposed RSS Spec. Changes - Proposed changes to the current specification.

RSS Specifications v2 - RSS originated in 1999, and has strived to be a simple, easy to understand format, with relatively modest goals. After it became a popular format, developers wanted to extend it using modules defined in namespaces, as specified by the W3C. RSS 2.0 adds that capability, following a simple rule. An RSS feed may contain elements not described, only if those elements are defined in the namespace.

RSS Specfications v1 - RDF Site Summary (RSS) is a lightweight multipurpose extensible metadata description and syndication format. RSS is an XML application, conforms to the W3C's RDF Specification and is extensible via XML-namespace and/or RDF based modularization.

RSS Specfications v.93 - RSS specification v.93 enclosures per item. (previous version only allowed one). Also all dates need to conform to the Date and Time Specification of RFC 822.

RSS Specification v.9 - places restrictions on the first non-whitespace characters of the data in the link and url tags. RSS 0.9 supports the full ASCII character set, as well as all legal decimal and HTML entities. RSS 0.9 does not support other types of character data, such as UTF-8.

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