Monday, January 25, 2010

RSS Versus Atom

I've just been reading this
article about about the Atom
web syndication format:

Atom (standard)

The above Wikipedia article seems
to be saying that the two following
web syndication formats co-exist on
the web:

  • RSS 2.0
  • Atom

Of the two formats, RSS 2.0
is the original. It would seem that
the Atom format for web
syndication is really a wish-list
of sorts for RSS 2.0.

In other words, Atom exists because
of perceived deficiencies with RSS
2.0. I say perceived because
I really don't know either format.

I'm learning as I go here.

At some point, it would seem, some
people got dissatisfied with RSS 2.0
and created Atom to address their
dissatisfaction.

Ed Abbott

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