The site for Tag URI documentation has updated after a brief absence. Tag URI’s become important as it’s the standard many folks are using to implement Atom’s id element.
Apple publishes RSS 2.0. Now to get the feeds in Atom.
Notes on the relationship between WebDAV and Atom from the Wiki.
Aaron Straup Cope built some XSLT code to ‘munge’ Atom 0.3 into RSS.
Update: title change. Blogger does Atom, Trifecta Complete Blogger announced support for Atom: both the format and the API. It’s easy to turn on Atom feeds from the Blogger control panel. So the big three of the Weblog space: Blogger, Live Journal, and Moveable Type are all supporting the format. Feed Validator Moves to Source [...]
I learned from Bill Bumgarner that the iTunes Music Store now has RSS feeds. I’ll withhold comment on the markup, but hey, we have feeds.
Good advice to syndication feed producers: subscribe to your own feed so that you learn about the broken things feedvalidator.org doesn’t catch such as relative URL that lead to 404 errors.
A fast way to get all the Right Wing members of Blogistan to adopt well-formed and valid XML: On the Atom list, the well-formed feeds question is back, should aggregators attempt to parse broken feeds, or throw an error and refuse to process them? There’s the Ultra Liberal Feed Parser that will munge most any [...]
Update: note that: The custom style below no longer works for LJ’s other than mine. Atom 0.3 has been deprecated. I do not plan to fix the bug. Thanks to Kim Slawson for letting me know about the custom style bug. I’ve wasted a sunny afternoon working on a Atom 0.3 friends feed from Live [...]
If you’re reading the RSS 1.0 feed of this weblog through Live Journal’s syndication service, you should switch to the Atom 0.3 feed by adding whumpxml to your friends list. This feed contains full posts instead of an excerpt.
You can get you and your friends Live Journals as an Atom Feed, the next generation syndication format, using magic URLs of the form: http://www.livejournal.com/users/[lj username]/data/atom
Several Atom (Syndication Format) links to note: Sam Ruby’s slides for XML 2003 The 0.3 Syntax Draft The 0.9 API Draft Mark Pilgrim’s explication of the 0.3 syntax draft. Mark also wrote a Movable Type template for the new syntax. Update: my Atom feed now validates as 0.3.
Net News Wire just updated (11:51 PST.) Sam Ruby’s comments feed was filled with spam advertising some sort of conspiracy theory site. Watching other folk’s comments feeds for this sort of thing might be a useful way to detect attacks.
It was great to read Ken MacLeod’s note on “Is a feed the right place for your data?” as it confirmed some things I’ve been experimenting with at work. Rather than using an html:link reference from a feed to a content piece, I use xinclude, so you get, in Atom: <entry xmlns=”…”> … <content type=”text/xhtml”> [...]