Syndication Feeds: RSS, Atom, Podcasts

RSS and Atom are lightweight XML formats for sharing headlines and other Web content.

RSS Snippet: Item

The heart of an RSS feed is an "item", which can have a title, link, and description.
Item from BBC News:

<item>
    <title>Heat fuelling California wildfire</title>
    <description>Firefighters tackling a wildfire north of Los Angeles say they are making
       slow progress and the blaze remains very dangerous.</description>
    <link>
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/americas/8230540.stm
    </link>
    <guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8230540.stm
    </guid>
    <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:19:25 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Americas</category>
    <media:thumbnail width="66" height="49"
      url="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46297000/jpg/_46297386_007874482-1.jpg"/>
</item>