Re: [syndication] Hi, Newbie Calling . . .

["Isofarro" <yahoosyndication@isofarro.uklinux.net>]

> Spare a thought for us Newbies.
>
> I'm merely a retired accountant with programming background zero.
> I've been (largely unsuccessfully) struggling to understand the
> practical differences between RDF, RSS, and XML

XML - eXtensible Markup Language is basically a language that allows the
creation of other markup languages. Its not a markup language on its own.

RDF - Resource Description Framework is a markup framework that allows the
description of resources. If a resource is a webpage we can describe who
wrote it, when they wrote it, what it is about, other pages relevant to it
etc. The thing with RDF is that you don't use it all by itself, you use
other vocabularies (markup languages created from XML, like RSS)  to
enrichen the description of resources.

RSS is an example of an XML Application (RSS 0.92) or RDF Vocabulary
(RSS1.0).

>- and sometimes even
> ASP and PHP rear their ugly heads

ASP, Active Server pages is a Microsoft framework for creating (programming)
web-based applications.
PHP is an open source scripting (programming) language that excels at
creating web-based applications

> - as far as is relevant to
> syndication and remote-including.

Both ASP and PHP can do remote including and syndication. They would:
1.) Request the remote file or syndication file
2.) Either parse through the file if it wasn't HTML and translate it to
HTML, or write it at a specific place in the ASP or PHP page.

> So far I've found in experiments that for me only XML files seem to
> work

RDF and RSS are both derived from XML, so if "XML files" work, so will they.


Hope that is of some help.