Glossary

Please add technical terms and their definitions related to Sage and/or news feeds in this page. Provide external links where appropriate. Keep them sorted in alphabetical order.


 * Aggregator A news aggregator is "software that periodically reads a set of news sources, in one of several XML-based formats, finds the new bits, and displays them in reverse-chronological order on a single page." See this article.


 * Atom Atom is a simple way to read and write information on the web, allowing you to easily keep track of more sites in less time, and to seamlessly share your words and ideas by publishing to the web. See AtomEnabled.


 * CSS Cascaded Style Sheets - see the W3C page about CSS (which has an RSS feed). The Sage settings panel has an option to "use style sheets".


 * News Feed See this article in Wikipedia.


 * OPML Outline Processor Markup Language - see OPML See also this Technology Report.


 * RSS Rich Site Summary (aka Really Simple Syndication) - see Introduction to RSS.


 * XML Extensible Markup Language - see WebRef page on XML See also this Cover Pages article.


 * XUL XML User Interface Language - see the home page for Mozilla XUL documentation.