What does xml mean, and how is it different than rss?
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XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a subset of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup language.)  XML helps data be served, received, and processed on the web because XML describes data in a very specific, ordered, and hierarchical way.  XML is described and maintained by the W3C (the same organization that defines HTML) and is now in version 1.1.  You can read more about XML at \nhttp://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/\n\nHere's an example of a snippet of xml\n\n<library>\n  <book>\n  <title>Green Eggs and Ham</title>\n  <author>Dr. Seuss</author>\n  <pages>28</pages>\n  </book>\n  <book>\n  <title>Dune</title>\n  <author>Frank Herbert</author>\n  <pages>779</pages>\n  </book>\n</library>\n\n\nFor more info on RSS, I'd read "What is RSS" from Xml.com authored by Mark Pilgrim ( http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html )
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I'm a big Firefox fan, but I have to admit, reading RSS via Firefox isn't very fun.  I do most of my casual RSS reading using Yahoo toolbar for Firefox to add RSS feed to my My Yahoo page.  http://toolbar.yahoo.com/firefox\n\nFor more serious research or tracking of RSS feeds, I like OnFolio which is a free standalone client that lets you gather information from multiple feeds, as well as search it.  http://onfolio.com\n\nIf you're adamant about reading your feeds in Firefox, check the aggregators available on http://addons.mozilla.org.
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RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and basically allows you to patch updates from a website through to somewhere else - for example, you can put an RSS feed from the BBC news site on your Yahoo 360 page, so that your 360 page always has the latest news stories on it. Or you can use a Yahoo widget on your desktop to get the latest sports results from RSS, and so on...
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big question!\n\nxml is real simple , until you get into one of the xml formats.\n\ndifferent editors have different strengths.\n\nExchanger XML Lite 3.2 is my favorite for complex stuff\nPC people use xmlspy, it's sweet!\n\nbut for plain editing any good xml editor will do! use the search engines.\n\nXML can be RSS or XHTML or XSL or XSD or a thousand other formats, and they each have their own best editors!
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There are a couple of translations for RSS but many people like "really simple syndication". It's a file format with a defined structure that a RSS reader, such as Google Reader, FeedDemon, NewsGator parses to find site content. The file doesn't read well for people. \n\nMany blogs and sites use RSS files to alert readers that new content is available. Instead of your having to go out to each site to see what's new, you subscribe to the site's feed. This makes it  easier to follow sites.\n\nThe problem is that web sites identify RSS files in a number of ways. Some people use the orange RSS icon and some use the XML buttons. Others display a number of services where you can subscribe to a RSS feed like My Yahoo. The articles below provide more detail.
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XML is an extensible way to format files for parsing. It's just a file format. So, unless you're using it for something specific, I'd say it has no impact at all.
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RSS is a technology that delivers updated information to subscribers for a particular feed. CMS's are systems that allow people to edit text, usually the text of a web site. \n\nAs for how a CMS relates to RSS: a web site that is managed using a CMS can produce RSS feeds that contain the content that is entered into the CMS. RSS is just another way that users of the web site can view the updated information (that is, other than having to go to the web site).\n\nIf this were a newspaper analogy, RSS would be the paperboy and the CMS would be the publishing company. \n\n * The paperboy, like RSS, delivers and carries the information but doesn't change it or care what it is. You have to subscribe to the paper, just like RSS, to get the information to be delivered to you.\n\n* The publishing company, like CMS, provides the facility for people, like reporters, to add their information to the publication.
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I don't see anything that does this on one tag. You might be able to take the RSS feed for that tag and then convert it something more useful for you. If you click the RSS button on the bottom of the page you can see the XML file. \n\nYou might also check the link below as they re are a bunch of hacks and the list is growing.
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Really Simple Syndication\n\nits a way for something like news data to be exported. \n\nFeeds are basically XML\n\nXML is a standard for making tags. You can use tags to describe and transfer data so you can import into a web site or a database and there is no problem with compatibility
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RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.\n\nXML is a markup language for documents containing structured information.  Structured information contains both content (words, pictures, etc.) and some indication of what role that content plays (for example, content in a section heading has a different meaning from content in a footnote, which means something different than content in a figure caption or content in a database table, etc.). Almost all documents have some structure.\n\nBizTalk Server 2004, a Windows Server System product, helps customers efficiently and effectively integrate systems, employees, and trading partners faster than ever before.\n\nMSMQ, part of Windows NT® Server, is a message queuing communications technology that enables applications on different systems to communicate with each other, even if systems and networks occasionally fail. MSMQ does this by enabling applications to communicate with each other through messages. MSMQ guarantees delivery of messages even despite network and application failures.
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From a (web page) coding standpoint, XML is like html but more structured and more strict.\nIn html:  <p>blah blah <p>blah blah is legal (but poor practice).\nIn XML you MUST have closing tag on everything:\n<p>blah blah</p> <p>blah blah </p>\n\nEven standalone tags must close.\nhtml:  <br>   xml:  <br />\n\nI would use XML on pages but as soon as you include things like ads and other people's code, it breaks because most of the code suppliers write plain html 4 (or 3.2).\nIf you are not going to have ads or accept other people's code, XML is an excellent choice. As well, there are things you can do in XML that don't require html support (RSS feeds for example).\n\nYou can also define your own types and give them properties.  A trivial example:\n<bong>Dual filters</bong> \nNo such thing as a <bong> in html. You can use this capability to simply tag or describe data, or style it up in CSS for display. XML can go a lot further than web pages. It can be used for simple databases, configuration files, logging and other things (example: modern word processors now store your documents in XML format).\n\nA good place to start is w3c (specs and some tutorials)\nhttp://www.w3.org/\nthen expand your search to things you are interested in.\nClick the search:
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good for standardizing data between different RDBMs\ngood as a medium form in converting from RDBMs to another\ngood in webpages\n\nyou cannot compare XML with the above RDBMs because XML is not a database its just a temporary data storage form
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I think there is a fair amount of potential in feeding RSS to mobile devices, TV, fridges etc. Perhaps there is money to be made from embedding adverts in the feed? What angle are you approaching this from?\n\nUpdate:\n\nIM is important and mature, and email is undoubtedly more so. RSS may be immune from spam, and (we'll assume) from virii, but does this make it important enough to be the next big thing in communications technology? With all due respect, don't forget it's just a simple XML doctype for publishing summaries of content. I believe that semantic web technologies will play a important role in e-commerce, but RSS is "baby steps" compared to the prospect of a fully machine-readable web.\n\nProve me wrong. People who do clever things with simple technologies are often the greatest pioneers.
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RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication"
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http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-NVb99sQ4RK5BVgIbxdcQdcRtfT8-?cq=1&p=33\n\nThis will give you a background in parsing an RSS feed; you can mod it to fill your MySQL DB as you like.
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See here http://www.dynawebdesigns.com/dynamic/xml/rssforge.php
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Atom and RSS are competing formats for subscribing to web feeds.  From a user's perspective, I don't see that it matters in the slightest which one is used.  From a feedreader developer's perspective, probably both should be supported - there's no point in having a feedreader that can't read a bunch of feeds!  From a feed provider's perspective, I don't see any purpose in providing both - might as well pick one or the other and forget about it.\n\nXML is a way to format all kinds of data in simple text.  Both Atom and RSS return XML documents describing feeds.