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<h2 id=divingin>Diving In</h2>
<p class=f>Most of the chapters in this book have centered around a piece of sample code. But <abbr>XML</abbr> isn&#8217;t about code; it&#8217;s about data. One common use of <abbr>XML</abbr> is &#8220;syndication feeds&#8221; that list the latest articles on a blog, forum, or other frequently-updated website. Most popular blogging software can produce a feed and update it whenever new articles, discussion threads, or blog posts are published. You can follow a blog by &#8220;subscribing&#8221; to its feed, and you can follow multiple blogs with a dedicated &#8220;<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feed_aggregators>feed aggregator</a>&#8221; like <a href=http://www.google.com/reader/>Google Reader</a>.
<p class=f>Nearly all the chapters in this book revolve around a piece of sample code. But <abbr>XML</abbr> isn&#8217;t about code; it&#8217;s about data. One common use of <abbr>XML</abbr> is &#8220;syndication feeds&#8221; that list the latest articles on a blog, forum, or other frequently-updated website. Most popular blogging software can produce a feed and update it whenever new articles, discussion threads, or blog posts are published. You can follow a blog by &#8220;subscribing&#8221; to its feed, and you can follow multiple blogs with a dedicated &#8220;<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feed_aggregators>feed aggregator</a>&#8221; like <a href=http://www.google.com/reader/>Google Reader</a>.
<p>Here, then, is the <abbr>XML</abbr> data we&#8217;ll be working with in this chapter. It&#8217;s a feed&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;specifically, an <a href=http://atompub.org/rfc4287.html>Atom syndication feed</a>.