Saturday, February 5, 2011

atom.xml vs RSS

Atom is an xml format file (atom.xml). It is used to publish syndicated content of blogs and websites in a standard.
User can can discover a file described as "atom.xml" in the URL that can be copied and pasted into an aggregator to subscribe to the feed. It is much similar with RSS.

It has few differences with RSS or we can say the shortcomings of RSS are overcome in atom.xml.

  • Atom was developed to be vendor neutral and freely extensible by any user; it is an "open standard."
  • Atom lies within an XML-namespace.
  • Atom includes "autodiscovery," allowing feed aggregators to automatically detect the presence of a feed.
  • Atom differentiates between relative and non-relative URIs.
  • Atom has separate "summary" and "content" elements.
  • Atom explicitly labels a payload as plaintext or HTML .
  • Each entry has a globally unique ID.
Atom has been adopted by many syndication tools, including Google's Blogger, Gmail and Google News. Microsoft has added Atom support to the feed browser integrated into Internet Explorer 7.

3 comments:

  1. This is great! Being a rookie in the online marketing field, it's sometimes really hard to understand what people are actually talking about when using the seo jargon. Even the best seo company out there uses a language that to me sounds more like chinese than any language I am capable of understanding. Thanks for posting this! It's gonna be really helpful for me!

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  2. Rita, I completely understand how you feel. I've been doing online marketing for a while, mainly focusing on organic seo services, and I know how confusing it can be in the beginning. But trust me, once you get a hang of it, everything will fall into place and it will be a piece of cake! Nice blog btw. Atom is great!

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