Atom

A pair of standards.

Atom Syndication Format is a WebFeed format.

Atom Publishing Protocol is for creating and updating Web resources -- for example, for a user's client-side software to interact with his blog server.

Status

Atom Syndication Format is a draft RFC. Atom Publishing Protocol is an IETF working group draft.

Spec

Atom Syndication Format: Draft RFC 4287.

Atom Publishing Protocol: IETF internet draft.

Example

For now, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28standard%29#Example_of_an_Atom_1.0_Feed for an example of the syndication feed, and

Working group

• Atom Wiki
• Atom Protocol Mailing List (publishing protocol)
• Atom Syntax Mailing List (syndication format)
• IETF Atom Publishing Format and Protocol working group (atompub)

Related standards

• RSS

Design goals / choices

• Simple
• HTTP-based
• "The development of Atom was motivated by the existence of many incompatible versions of the RSS syndication format, all of which had shortcomings, and the poor interoperability of XML-RPC-based publishing protocols" -- Wikipedia:Atom_(standard)

Compatibility notes

Links

• Wikipedia:Atom_(standard)
• AtomEnabled.org

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