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During all this recent excitement about using hAtom to generate feeds, I’d forgotten that I wrote about the concept nearly three years ago when I was getting ready to talk about syndication at Seybold SF.

While providing a purpose-built (ahem, Atom) feed remains the best answer, hAtom offers two things we didn’t have three years ago:

1. A consistent content model: you don’t have to analyze the markup and write a custom XSLT transform (such as in my example using The Nation, or the feed for The Infinite Matrix.)
2. A widely deployed model: It appears that Sandbox, a theme with hAtom support, will become the default template for Wordpress.

Possibly Related posts (machine generated):

1. Subscribing To hAtom Feeds With NetNewsWire
2. XSLT Friday
3. hAtom: or one less output format
4. XHTML is good enough
5. Sandbox and Strangelove: hAtom in Wordpress