Shane Baptista
Computing Consultant
Center for Teaching Excellence
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| Shane Baptista
Computing Consultant |
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. It is a simplified subset of SGML. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of data across different systems, particularly systems connected via the Internet. Languages based on XML (for example, Geography Markup Language (GML), RDF/XML, RSS, MathML, Physical Markup Language (PML), XHTML, SVG, MusicXML and cXML) are defined in a formal way, allowing programs to modify and validate documents in these languages without prior knowledge of their form. From the Wikipedia via a google cache because the site is down go back and check this link.
While the name was primarily associated with audio subscriptions in 2004, the RSS enclosure syndication technique had been used with video files since 2001, before portable video players were widely available. In fact, any file with a URL, including still images and text, can be delivered as an enclosure.
The feed that delivers information on the download MP3. The Podcast Aggregator recieves new information when it is changed.
This is by far the best chunk of knowledge concerning my iPod I've come across to date. Now the large hard drive (30gb) is useful with the portable apps and the ability to play my files from my iPod and save files to my iPod