Contents

What is Atom? About this document

Sample feed

Feed Elements Required

Recommended

Optional

Entry Elements Required

Recommended

Optional

Common Constructs Category

Content

Link

Person

Text

Extending Atom

See Also

What is Atom?

Atom is the name of an XML-based Web content and metadata syndication format, and an application-level protocol for publishing and editing Web resources belonging to periodically updated websites.

All Atom feeds must be well-formed XML documents, and are identified with the application/atom+xml media type.

About this document

This document focuses on The Atom Syndication Format produced by the IETF AtomPub Working Group .…