What's the difference between RSS and XML

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Quick, question, I am looking for RSS feeds for my wordpress blog so that I can grab them and put them into my blog as posts and when I try to grab some they come up as XML feeds. What is the difference and can you change a xml feed to an RSS feed because the wordpress plugin I am using doesn't seem to accept xml feeds.
#difference #rss #xml
  • Profile picture of the author Neil Morgan
    XML is a structure that is used to move data around.

    <colors>
    <color>red</color>
    <color>blue</color>
    <color>green></color>
    </colors>

    ...and it has any number of uses.

    An example of one use of XML is RSS (Really Simple Syndication). Many feeds publish their content in RSS format. such as:

    BBC NEWS | Help | RSS | News feeds from the BBC

    If a feed is XML but does not have the RSS structure then you would need a bit of code to extract the data from the feed and restructure it as RSS.

    Cheers,

    Neil
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    • Profile picture of the author joecool1972
      Thanks Neil for explaining it to me.

      I think I will basically stay away from any XML feeds for now for my wordpress stuff and stick to the straight RSS, until I am more experienced.
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