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CHAPTER 20 • WEB SERVICESwww.it-ebooks.infoFigure 20-1. The RSS Bandit interfaceWHO’S PUBLISHING RSS FEEDS?Believe it or not, RSS has officially been around since early 1999, and in previous incarnations since 1996.However, like many emerging technologies, it remained a niche tool of the IT community for several years.The emergence and growing popularity of news aggregation sites and tools has prompted an explosion interms of the creation and publication of RSS feeds around the Web. These days, you can find RSS feedsjust about everywhere, including within these prominent organizations:Yahoo! News: http://news.yahoo.com/rssThe Christian Science Monitor:www.csmonitor.com/About/Subscriptions/RSSWired.com: www.wired.com/services/rssUnderstanding RSS SyntaxIf you’re not familiar with the general syntax of an RSS feed, Listing 20-1 offers an example, which will beused as input for the scripts that follow. Although a discussion of RSS syntax specifics is beyond thescope of this book, you’ll nonetheless find the structure and tags to be quite intuitive (after all, that’s whythey call it Really Simple Syndication).414