Retrieving an Atom Entry
To retrieve a single entry on a weblog in Atom format, one first needs to discover the URI from which to retrieve the entry. This URI is easily discovered by inspecting an Atom feed. Each <entry> element should contain a link relation entitled “service.edit”. By performing an HTTP GET against this URI, one will be able to retrieve a complete Atom representation of that post or resource.
Finding the service.edit URI for an Entry
The following demonstrates where in an Atom feed document one can find the URI that a client can then fetch a complete representation of an Atom resource contained within that feed. The following is an excerpt from an Atom feed document:
Notice the element:
The href attribute points to the URI from which you can retrieve a complete representation of this post. Once you have this URI, a client can then perform an HTTP GET against that URI to retrieve a complete Atom representation of the corresponding resource.
