atom:entry

an individual entry, acting as a container for metadata and data associated with the entry

Element information

Content

• Choice [0..*]
  • atom:author    a Person construct that indicates the author of the entry or feed
  • atom:category    conveys information about a category associated with an entry or feed
  • atom:content    either contains or links to the content of the entry
  • atom:contributor    a Person construct that indicates a person or other entity who contributed to the entry or feed.
  • atom:id    a permanent, universally unique identifier for an entry or feed
  • atom:link    a reference from an entry or feed to a Web resource
  • atom:published    an instant in time associated with an event early in the life cycle of the entry
  • atom:rights    information about rights held in and over an entry or feed
  • atom:source    If an atom:entry is copied from one feed into another feed, then the source atom:feed's metadata (all child elements of atom:feed other than the atom:entry elements) MAY be preserved within the copied entry by adding an atom:source child element, if it is not already present in the entry, and including some or all of the source feed's Metadata elements as the atom:source element's children
  • atom:summary    a short summary, abstract, or excerpt of an entry
  • atom:title    a human-readable title for an entry or feed
  • atom:updated    the most recent instant in time when an entry or feed was modified in a way the publisher considers significant
  from group atom:extensionElement
  Any element Namespace: ##other, Process Contents: skip
  Any element Namespace: ##local, Process Contents: skip

Attributes

Used in

• Anonymous type of element atom:feed

Sample instance

<entry>
   <title>Atom draft-07 snapshot</title>
   <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://example.org/2005/04/02/atom"/>
   <link rel="enclosure" type="audio/mpeg" length="1337"
         href="http://example.org/audio/ph34r_my_podcast.mp3"/>
   <id>tag:example.org,2003:3.2397</id>
   <updated>2005-07-31T12:29:29Z</updated>
   <published>2003-12-13T08:29:29-04:00</published>
   <author>
      <name>Mark Pilgrim</name>
      <uri>http://example.org/</uri>
      <email>f8dy@example.com</email>
   </author>
   <contributor>
      <name>Sam Ruby</name>
   </contributor>
   <contributor>
      <name>Joe Gregorio</name>
   </contributor>
   <content type="xhtml" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://diveintomark.org/">
      <div>
         <p>
            <i>[Update: The Atom draft is finished.]</i>
         </p>
      </div>
   </content>
</entry>