RSS Tutorial

How Does RSS Work

This is how RSS works:

A website or a blog creates an RSS Feed. Many Blog services automatically create RSS Feeds. For Websites, RSS Feeds can be created manually or with software.
The RSS Feed that is created is an XML file that lives on an Internet server. There are now hundreds of thousands of RSS Feeds sitting on Internet servers waiting patiently for an RSS Reader to subscribe to them.
The RSS Feed Reader reads the RSS Feed file and displays it. The RSS Reader displays only new items from the RSS Feed.

I will use one of my blogs as an example called the RSS Tutorial Reference Blog. The blog service creates the RSS Feed automatically

The RSS Feed from the RSS Tutorial Reference Blog. It is an RSS XML file. Select the file and then right click to view the XML source.

An RSS Feed Reader reads the RSS feed file, finds what is new, converts it to HTML, and displays it like the following:

The RSS Feed Reader: RSS Tutorial Reference Blog