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[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

I came across this format for news/bloggers etc. Its got
a lot of the features we might need. See more at
        http://www.atomenabled.org/developers/syndication/atom-format-spec.php

its used by google bloggers site.

1  Introduction

Atom is an XML-based file format intended to allow lists of information, 
known as "feeds", to be synchronised between publishers and consumers. 
Feeds are composed of a number of items, known as "entries", each with 
an extensible set of attached metadata. For example, each entry has a title.

The primary use case that Atom addresses is for syndicating Web content 
such as Weblogs and news headlines to other Web sites and directly to 
consumers. However, nothing precludes it from being used for other 
purposes and types of content.

Details of comunication protocols between software agents using Atom are 
to be found in the Atom API specification 
<eref>http://bitworking.org/projects/atom/draft-gregorio-09.html</eref>.

[[ more motivation / design principles ]]
1.1  Example

A minimal, single-entry Atom feed serialized as XML 1.0:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<feed version="0.3" xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#";>
  <title>dive into mark</title>
  <link rel="alternate" type="text/html"
   href="http://diveintomark.org/"/>

  <modified>2003-12-13T18:30:02Z</modified>
  <author>
    <name>Mark Pilgrim</name>
  </author>
  <entry>

    <title>Atom 0.3 snapshot</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html"
     href="http://diveintomark.org/2003/12/13/atom03"/>
    <id>tag:diveintomark.org,2003:3.2397</id>
    <issued>2003-12-13T08:29:29-04:00</issued>

    <modified>2003-12-13T18:30:02Z</modified>
  </entry>
</feed>



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