2008-05-23T06:53:11-07:00 Practical Ecommerce info@practicalecommerce.com http://www.practicalecommerce.com/ Copyright 2007 Confluence Publishing DBA Practical Ecommerce http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/409/How-Is-An-Atom-Feed-Different-From-An-RSS-Feed/#comment11557 2008-05-23T06:53:11-07:00

I validate an RSS, get message that adding an atom feed would be a good idea. So I do. I validate again and get message Self reference document doesn't match an equivalant document. Duh. No real explantation of what this means. the atom link to the file is correct. Are they telling me I also need an atom feed xml file? I have 140 feeds. So now i gotta create another 140 feeds using atom. Why can't I just combine both in one.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/409/How-Is-An-Atom-Feed-Different-From-An-RSS-Feed/#comment4033 2007-11-06T08:44:07-07:00

Very interesting -but which of the two is considered best or standard?

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/409/How-Is-An-Atom-Feed-Different-From-An-RSS-Feed/#comment373 2007-02-18T22:27:19-07:00

A fairly complete how-to for creating atom feeds is now on-line at this URL. I have included notes on one annoying browser quirk and also a Perl/CGI script to allow for sorting Atom feeds inside of an ordinary web browser.: http://starling.us/atom

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/409/How-Is-An-Atom-Feed-Different-From-An-RSS-Feed/#comment260 2007-02-07T14:32:13-07:00

According to the Rmail [http://www.r-mail.org/] database, Atom 1.0 still represents a fraction of 1% of all feeds.