David James has been working out a microformat version of Atom.
Why?
In Mark Pilgrim’s world of the future, where your web browser does more than just display HTML documents, it means that when you want to add a site to your aggregator, your aggregator wouldn’t look for an Atom feed. Instead it’d parse the site using an hAtom filter (XSLT, JavaScript, DOM, XQuery) and pull the content into the aggregator’s database.
Um, sorta like what services such as Feedfire do already.
The XML version of Atom would become your aggregator’s format for sharing feed data.
