The final sections answer frequently asked questions, and provide a roadmap for future evolution, and guidelines for extending RSS. Change notes are here.įirst we document the required and optional sub-elements of and then document the sub-elements of. This document represents the current status of RSS, incorporating all changes and additions starting with the basic spec for RSS 0.91 (June 2000) and follows RSS 0.92 (December 2000), RSS 2.0 (August 2002), and RSS 2.0.1 (July 2003). Maintaining a trail of samples seems like a good idea. The 0.91 sample was created when the 0.91 docs were written. Note that the sample files may point to documents and services that no longer exist.

Here are sample files for: RSS 0.91, 0.92 and 2.0. Subordinate to the element is a single element, which contains information about the channel (metadata) and its contents. If it conforms to this specification, the version attribute must be 2.0. All RSS files must conform to the XML 1.0 specification, as published on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website.Īt the top level, a RSS document is a element, with a mandatory attribute called version, that specifies the version of RSS that the document conforms to. Its name is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication. The current version of the RSS spec will always be available at this link, all changes have been logged and other revisions have been archived. Archivist's Note: This is the current version of the RSS 2.0 specification, published by the RSS Advisory Board on Maas version 2.0.11.

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