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Dan Tobias at 17:42, 2 October 2016

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Dan Tobias at 22:32, 6 February 2014

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‎Format specs

Dan Tobias at 22:29, 6 February 2014

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Dan Tobias: Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Web |extensions={{ext|atom}}, {{ext|xml}} |mimetypes={{mimetype|application/atom+xml}} |released=2005 }} '''Atom''' is a web feed/..."

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Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Web |extensions={{ext|atom}}, {{ext|xml}} |mimetypes={{mimetype|application/atom+xml}} |released=2005 }} '''Atom''' is a web feed/..."

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{{FormatInfo
|formattype=electronic
|subcat=Web
|extensions={{ext|atom}}, {{ext|xml}}
|mimetypes={{mimetype|application/atom+xml}}
|released=2005
}}

'''Atom''' is a web feed/syndication format intended to replace [[RSS]]. Its creation was motivated by a desire to have an open, standardized feed format free from the confusion of the various incompatible RSS versions. Atom has been documented in several RFC documents through the IETF (an Internet standards body), and has an officially-registered MIME type (unlike RSS), but has yet to gain the broad use and acceptance RSS has.

Like RSS, Atom is [[XML]]-based, and its basic syntax is very similar; however, some of the element names are different. Resolving one of the ambiguities of RSS, Atom permits the explicit declaration of the content type and encoding format of feed content, whereas RSS leaves the reader guessing whether the contents of a feed are intended to be interpreted as plain text or HTML.

== Format specs ==
* RFC 4287 - main document
* RFC 5023 - publishing protocol
* RFC 4685 - threading extensions
* RFC 5005 - paging and archiving
* [http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom hAtom] - microformat for marking up HTML for an Atom feed

== Other links ==
* [http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/FrontPage Atom Wiki]
* [[Wikipedia:Atom (standard)|Wikipedia article]]

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 Like RSS, Atom is [[XML]]-based, and its basic syntax is very similar; however, some of the element names are different. Resolving one of the ambiguities of RSS, Atom permits the explicit declaration of the content type and encoding format of feed content, whereas RSS leaves the reader guessing whether the contents of a feed are intended to be interpreted as plain text or HTML.
-The [[hAtom]] "microformat" allows a subset of Atom to be encoded within an HTML or XML document.
+The [[h-feed]] and [[h-entry]] (formerly collectively known as hAtom) "microformats" allow a subset of Atom to be encoded within an HTML or XML document.
 == Format specs ==

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	Like RSS, Atom is [[XML]]-based, and its basic syntax is very similar; however, some of the element names are different. Resolving one of the ambiguities of RSS, Atom permits the explicit declaration of the content type and encoding format of feed content, whereas RSS leaves the reader guessing whether the contents of a feed are intended to be interpreted as plain text or HTML.		Like RSS, Atom is [[XML]]-based, and its basic syntax is very similar; however, some of the element names are different. Resolving one of the ambiguities of RSS, Atom permits the explicit declaration of the content type and encoding format of feed content, whereas RSS leaves the reader guessing whether the contents of a feed are intended to be interpreted as plain text or HTML.
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		+	The [[hAtom]] "microformat" allows a subset of Atom to be encoded within an HTML or XML document.

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 * RFC 5005 - paging and archiving
 * [http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom hAtom] - microformat for marking up HTML for an Atom feed
 == Other links ==
 * [http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/FrontPage Atom Wiki]
 * [[Wikipedia:Atom (standard)|Wikipedia article]]

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 '''Atom''' is a web feed/syndication format intended to replace [[RSS]]. Its creation was motivated by a desire to have an open, standardized feed format free from the confusion of the various incompatible RSS versions. Atom has been documented in several RFC documents through the IETF (an Internet standards body), and has an officially-registered MIME type (unlike RSS), but has yet to gain the broad use and acceptance RSS has.