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Retrieving a list of posts for a weblog
There are two ways to retrieve a list of posts for a weblog: one is via the feed, and one is via the protocol. The link to the Atom feed is often linked to or referenced from the homepage of...
Overview of the Atom Syndication Format
The Atom Syndication Format is a standard format to describe lists of related information known as "feeds". Feeds are composed of a number of items, known as "entries." Atom is an ideal format for listing weblog content, but can be...
Element: updated
The value of the updated element is the date indicating when the entry or feed was last modified in a way the publisher considers significant. Therefore, not all modifications made to an entry or feed necessarily result in a changed...
Element: title
The title element contains a human-readable title for an entry or feed....
Element: summary
The "summary" element contains a text summary, abstract, or excerpt of an entry....
Element: subtitle
The "subtitle" element is text description or subtitle for a feed....
Element: source
The source element is used to convey information about the source of an entry. If, for example, an entry is copied from one feed to another, then the source element would contain the metadata belonging to the source feed (any...
Element: rights
The "rights" element contains information about rights held in and over an entry or feed. The content of this element is intended to be consumed by feed aggregators and readers and is not typically in a format meaningful to people....
Element: published
The value of the published element is the date associated with the initial creation or first availability of the resource....
Element: logo
The "logo" element points the the URL of an image that should be associated with the current feed....
Element: link
The "link" element defines a reference from an entry or feed to another resource on the Web. The link element is often referred to a "link relation" as it relates one resource to another via a link tag. Link relations...
Element: id
The "id" element contains a permanent, universally unique identifier for an entry or feed. The id element is immutable....
Element: icon
The "icon" element points to a URL where an image can be found that can serve as an icon for the feed....
Element: generator
The "generator" element's content identifies the software used to generate a feed....
Element: feed
The "feed" element is the top-level element of an Atom Feed Document and contains the metadata and data associated with the feed. Its child elements describe the metadata of the feed and contain zero or more entry elements describing the...
Element: entry
The "entry" element represents an individual entry or post and contains all the metadata and data associated with the entry....
Element: contributor
The contributor element identifies the contributing authors of a feed or an entry. The element is identical in structure to an author element....
Element: content
The "content" element contains the content of the containing entry....
Element: category
The category element associates your entry or feed with a designated category. The term "category" is used loosely here as a category within the context of Atom could just as easily be a "tag" (like those used in LiveJournal, Flickr...
Element: author
The author element identifies the primary author of a feed, or the specific author of an entry. If no author element exists for an entry, then it is safe to assume that the author of the entry is the same...
