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RSS & XML

Netscape Communications created RSS as a way to let various applications read Web documents and identify attributes such as title, author and subject matter. After Netscape lost interest in maintaining RSS, it passed the format to UserLand Software, Winer's Palo Alto, Calif.-based company, which produces software titles for publishing blogs and other Web content. The transfer of RSS to Harvard from UserLand won praise from participants in the RSS debate, Bray among them.