Editing UserLand Software (section)

==XML-based protocols and formats==
UserLand counts among the earliest adopters of [[XML]], with first experiments made in late 1997.<ref>{{cite web
| last = Winer
| first = Dave
| title = Scripting News in XML
| work = DaveNet
| access-date =March 7, 2009
| date = December 15, 1997
| url = http://www.scripting.com/davenet/1997/12/15/scriptingNewsInXML.html
}}</ref> The company was involved in the development, specification and implementation of several XML formats and was noted for its commitment to openness.<ref>{{Cite news
| last = Dumbill
| first = Edd
| title = XML Inter-Application Protocols
| work = XML.com
| access-date =June 3, 2009
| date = October 13, 1999
| url = http://www.xml.com/pub/a/1999/10/open/index.html?wwwrrr_rss
}}</ref>

===XML-RPC===
{{main|XML-RPC}}

Created in 1998 by UserLand Software and [[Microsoft]],<ref>{{cite web
 |last         = Box
 |first        = Don
 |title        = A Brief History of SOAP
 |publisher    = [[O'Reilly Media|O'Reilly]]
 |date         = April 1, 2001
 |url          = http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2001/04/04/soap.html
 |access-date   = October 9, 2008
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20080915090248/http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2001/04/04/soap.html
 |archive-date = September 15, 2008
 |url-status     = dead
 |df           = mdy-all
}}</ref> XML-RPC is a [[remote procedure call]] protocol that uses [[XML]] to encode its calls and [[HTTP]] as a transport mechanism.<ref name="book1">{{cite book|author1=Simon St. Laurent|author2=Joe Johnston|author3=Edd Dumbill|title=Programming Web Services With Xml-Rpc|url=https://archive.org/details/programmingwebse00stla|url-access=registration|access-date=11 June 2012|year=2001|publisher=[[O'Reilly Media|O'Reilly Media, Inc.]]|isbn=978-0-596-00119-3}}</ref>

UserLand first included a stable XML-RPC framework with its 5.1.3 release of Frontier in August 1998<ref>{{cite web
| last = Userland
| title = Frontier 5.1.3 Change Notes
| work = Userland Frontier
| access-date =March 13, 2009
| date = August 16, 1998
| url = http://frontier.userland.com/changes/513
}}</ref> and subsequently made extensive use of XML-RPC in its Frontier-based products, Manila and Radio UserLand. XML-RPC is also used in the [[MetaWeblog]] API.

===SOAP===
{{main|SOAP}}

SOAP evolved from XML-RPC and was designed as an object-access protocol by [[Dave Winer]], [[Don Box]], Bob Atkinson, and Mohsen Al-Ghosein in 1998, with backing from [[Microsoft]], where Atkinson and Al-Ghosein worked at the time.

SOAP 1.1 was submitted to the [[W3C]] by [[Microsoft]], [[IBM]], and UserLand, amongst others, on May 9, 2000.<ref>{{cite web
| last = Userland
| title = UserLand Submits SOAP 1.1 to World Wide Web Consortium
| work = Userland
| access-date =March 7, 2009
| date = May 9, 2000
| url = http://www.userland.com/stories/storyReader$66
}}</ref> Version 1.2 of the proposed standard<ref>[http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/#intro SOAP Version 1.2 specification]</ref> became a [[W3C]] recommendation on June 24, 2003.

===RSS===
{{main|RSS}}

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of [[Web feed]] formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.<ref>{{cite web
 | url= http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-spec-0.91.html
 | title=RSS 0.91 Spec, revision 3 | author=Libby, Dan
 | date=July 10, 1999 |publisher=[[Netscape|Netscape Communications]]
 | access-date=February 14, 2007
 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20001204093600/http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-spec-0.91.html
 | archive-date= December 4, 2000 }}</ref> An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed",<ref name="GuardWF">
  "Web feeds | RSS | The Guardian | guardian.co.uk",
  ''The Guardian'', London, 2008, webpage:
  [https://www.theguardian.com/webfeeds GuardianUK-webfeeds].
</ref> or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus [[metadata]] such as publishing dates and authorship.

Between 1999 and 2003, UserLand contributed various versions of the RSS specification. For an overview of the process see the [[History of web syndication technology]].

Using RSS, UserLand also ran one of the first Web aggregators, My.UserLand.Com, which allowed users to follow numerous weblogs from a single web page.

Userland's RSS advocacy led them to develop RSS feeds for the [[New York Times]] company.<ref>[http://backend.userland.com/2003/06/16 Accessing the NY Times archive through their RSS feeds – Backend.Userland.Com]</ref> The original feeds used a variation on standard RSS, and the feeds were only publicized to UserLand Radio bloggers.

===OPML===
{{main|OPML}}
[[Outline Processor Markup Language]] (OPML) is an [[XML]] format for outlines.  Originally developed in 2000 as a native file format for [[Radio UserLand]]'s [[outliner]] application, it has since been adopted for other uses, the most common being to exchange lists of [[web feeds]] between web [[feed aggregator]]s.