atom:feed

the document (i.e., top-level) element of an Atom Feed Document, acting as a container for metadata and data associated with the feed

Element information

Content

• Sequence [1..1]
  1. 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:contributor    a Person construct that indicates a person or other entity who contributed to the entry or feed.
     • atom:generator    the agent used to generate a feed, for debugging and other purposes.
     • atom:icon    an IRI reference [RFC3987] that identifies an image that provides iconic visual identification for a 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:logo    an IRI reference [RFC3987] that identifies an image that provides visual identification for a feed
     • atom:rights    information about rights held in and over an entry or feed
     • atom:subtitle    a human- readable description or subtitle for a feed
     • 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
  2. atom:entry [0..*]    an individual entry, acting as a container for metadata and data associated with the entry

Attributes

Sample instance

<feed>
   <title type="text">dive into mark</title>
   <subtitle type="html">
            A &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of effort
            went into making this effortless
        </subtitle>
   <updated>2005-07-31T12:29:29Z</updated>
   <id>tag:example.org,2003:3</id>
   <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="en" href="http://example.org/"/>
   <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://example.org/feed.atom"/>
   <rights>Copyright (c) 2003, Mark Pilgrim</rights>
   <generator uri="http://www.example.com/" version="1.0">
            Example Toolkit
        </generator>
   <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>
</feed>