[MTOS-dev] hAtom in MT 4.1

[Niall Kennedy]

   Author is a required element of an hAtom microformat entry [1] and  
the Atom Syndication Format [2].

"""
atom:entry elements MUST contain one or more atom:author elements,  
unless the atom:entry contains an atom:source element that contains an  
atom:author element or, in an Atom Feed Document, the atom:feed  
element contains an atom:author element itself.
"""

   Translated that means that each blog entry has one or more authors  
unless the entire blog is written by a single author, in which case  
you should declare the author data at the feed level. If the blog  
entry is simply copied or republished from another source, such as a  
list of favorite blog posts from around the web, it's OK to not  
specify the author of the blog entry and instead specify the author  
defined in the original entry.

   The current Atom template [3] presumes we have at least  
EntryAuthorDisplayName.

"""
<author>
   <name><$MTEntryAuthorDisplayName encode_xml="1"$></name>
   <MTIfNonEmpty tag="MTEntryAuthorURL"><uri><$MTEntryAuthorURL  
encode_xml="1"$></uri></MTIfNonEmpty>
</author>
"""


-Niall Kennedy


[1] http://microformats.org/wiki/hAtom#Entry_Author
[2] http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287.html#sec-4.1.2
[3] http://movabletype.org/opensource/nightlies/MTOS-4.1-en-release-27-r1260-20080116/default_templates/atom.mtml


On Jan 18, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Bud Gibson wrote:

> BTW, how can MT publish a conformant atom feed but not a conformant  
> hatom page?