RDT Syndication Format

RSS based on RDF was introduced by Netscape in the original RSS syndication format but by the second Netscape revision the RDF syntax was dropped. This lead to the confusing situation where incompatible RDF and RSS syntax feeds were known by the same RSS acronym. In late 2000 an organization known as the RSS-DEV working group released RSS 1.0, but for simplicity we will refer to it as RDF 1.0. This feed format is based on the Resource Description Framework which is a WC3 Recommendation. It depends on modules such as the flexible Dublin Core Metadata Element Set to supply much of its feed data.