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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 [http://atompub.org/rfc4287.html RFC 4287]. Atom Publishing Protocol: [http://bitworking.org/projects/atom/draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-14.html 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 == * [http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/FrontPage Atom Wiki] * [http://www.imc.org/atom-protocol/index.html Atom Protocol Mailing List] (publishing protocol) * [http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/index.html Atom Syntax Mailing List] (syndication format) * [http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/atompub-charter.html 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" -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28standard%29 Wikipedia:Atom_(standard)] == Compatibility notes == == Links == * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28standard%29 Wikipedia:Atom_(standard)] * [http://www.atomenabled.org/ AtomEnabled.org] ---- CategoryStandard CategoryFormat CategoryProtocol
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