On 5/7/04 4:44 am, "Felipe Garcia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanx, I saw that.
>
> Was confused bt "feed." What is the diff between site
> and feed?
A site is written in HTML and may offer graphics, video, Flash, ActiveX ...
the works.
A feed is written in XML using a fairly narrowly defined framework -
needless to say, there are different standards, such as RSS and Atom - and
is a _distillation_ of the site. It only contains plain text, but may point
to pages on the site or other content through hyperlinks.
The much-quoted "short definition" of RSS is here:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html
That the NYT is offering RSS feeds is great - it has been persistently
problematic, changing site format regularly and so on, and now there should
be consistency.
Alastair
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