Atom

Atom is a set of specifications for publishing, syndicating, archiving and editing episodic web sites.

The dumbest omission so far? A polling interval attribute like RSS's ttl.

• RFC:5023 - The Atom Publishing Protocol
• RFC:4287 - The Atom Syndication Format
• Atom Wiki (messy as hell)
• 0.3 Spec
• ConformanceTests

• An interesting Ruby-based parser (via)