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 content contained within the feed.

Parent Elements

None

Child Elements

• author
• category
• contributor
• generator
• icon
• id
• link
• logo
• rights
• subtitle
• title
• updated
• entry

Example Feed

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <title type="text">dive into mark</title>
  <subtitle type="html">
    A &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of effort 
    went into making this effortless
  </subtitle>
  <updated>2005-07-31T12:29:29Z</updated>
  <id>tag:example.org,2003:3</id>
  <link rel="alternate" type="text/html"
   hreflang="en" href="http://example.org/"/>
  <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"
   href="http://example.org/feed.atom"/>
  <rights>Copyright (c) 2003, Mark Pilgrim</rights>
  <generator uri="http://www.example.com/" version="1.0">
    Example Toolkit
  </generator>
  <entry>
    <title>Atom draft-07 snapshot</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html"
     href="http://example.org/2005/04/02/atom"/>
    <link rel="enclosure" type="audio/mpeg" length="1337"
     href="http://example.org/audio/ph34r_my_podcast.mp3"/>
    <id>tag:example.org,2003:3.2397</id>
    <updated>2005-07-31T12:29:29Z</updated>
    <published>2003-12-13T08:29:29-04:00</published>
    <author>
      <name>Mark Pilgrim</name>
      <uri>http://example.org/</uri>
      <email>f8dy@example.com</email>
    </author>
    <contributor>
      <name>Sam Ruby</name>
    </contributor>
    <contributor>
      <name>Joe Gregorio</name>
    </contributor>
    <content type="xhtml" xml:lang="en"
     xml:base="http://diveintomark.org/">
      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
        <p><i>[Update: The Atom draft is finished.]</i></p>
      </div>
    </content>
  </entry>
</feed>