http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/409/How-Is-An-Atom-Feed-Different-From-An-RSS-Feed/ User submitted comments to Practical Ecommerce's article entitled How Is An Atom Feed Different From An RSS Feed? en-us Copyright 2007 Confluence Publishing Fri, 23 May 2008 06:53:11 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/rss/ Practical Ecommerce v2.0.1 Ecommerce kmurdock@practicalecommerce.com bgetting@practicalecommerce.com 60 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/409/How-Is-An-Atom-Feed-Different-From-An-RSS-Feed/#comment11557 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. Fri, 23 May 2008 06:53:11 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/409/How-Is-An-Atom-Feed-Different-From-An-RSS-Feed/#comment11557 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/409/How-Is-An-Atom-Feed-Different-From-An-RSS-Feed/#comment4033 Very interesting -but which of the two is considered best or standard? Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:44:07 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/409/How-Is-An-Atom-Feed-Different-From-An-RSS-Feed/#comment4033 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/409/How-Is-An-Atom-Feed-Different-From-An-RSS-Feed/#comment373 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 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:27:19 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/409/How-Is-An-Atom-Feed-Different-From-An-RSS-Feed/#comment373 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/409/How-Is-An-Atom-Feed-Different-From-An-RSS-Feed/#comment260 According to the Rmail [http://www.r-mail.org/] database, Atom 1.0 still represents a fraction of 1% of all feeds. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:32:13 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/409/How-Is-An-Atom-Feed-Different-From-An-RSS-Feed/#comment260