RSS Feeds
An RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Feed is a way of syndicating web content in an XML format that is understood by a wide variety of programs, such as news readers, web browsers, and mail programs. There are many different versions of RSS, with the most popular being 0.91, and the most recent being 2.0.
An RSS feed consists of channels, which are then broken up into individual items. Both channels and items have a title, link, and description. The format of a RSS 0.91 feed is as follows:
For a discussion of the various versions of RSS, see the article on XML.com.
Cascade Server makes it easy to author RSS feeds with out-of-the-box XSL stylesheets that can turn an index block into an RSS feed syndicating items such as news, press releases, or anything else that needs to be syndicated. In addition, external RSS feeds can be aggregated using Cascade Server's XML feed blocks.
Cascade Server also uses RSS feeds to syndicate workflow information from the user's dashboard.