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'''Web syndication''' is making a section of a [[website]] available for other sites to use. This could be simply by [[license|licensing]] the content so other people can use it, but more commonly these days ''web syndication'' refers to making [[feed]]s available from a site so other people can display an updating list of content from it (for example one's latest forum postings, etc.). This originated with [[news]] and [[weblog|blog]] site but is increasingly used to syndicate any information. For example, Dan Savage's [[Savage Love]] advice column is regularly syndicated.

Although the format could be [[HTML]] or [[JavaScript]] it is more commonly [[XML]] but there has been considerable discussion about the right format leading to [[RSS]] having parallel versions and more recent attempts to produce a new web syndication [[XML]] variant.

[[LiveJournal]] offers an option to automatically syndicate external websites such as [[Neil Gaiman]]'s blog.

==See also==

See also: [[Rich Site Summary]] ([[RSS]] 0.9x/2.x), [[RDF Site Summary]] ([[RSS]] 1.x), [[Atom/Echo]], [[Creative Commons]]

*[[Atom/Echo]]

*[[Creative Commons]]

*[[RDF Site Summary]] (RSS 1.x)

*[[Rich Site Summary]] (RSS 0.9x/2.x)