Introduction to Atom

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mplanchard•about 4 hours ago

I hand-rolled an atom feed for my statically generated blog. It’s a reasonable, easy format to work with.

intrasight•about 3 hours ago

First iteration of Google's APIs were atom. I do miss XML.

abustamam•35 minutes ago

One of the API providers I use at work returns responses in XML and we use an XML parser to parse it to JSON and even then it's not perfect.

What do you like about XML? I feel like I'm missing something.

perrohunter•about 4 hours ago

what is old is new again?

hnlmorg•about 3 hours ago

No, this is just old.

Pity though. RSS / Atom was a fantastic concept and it’s a real pity big tech killed them off.

rambambram•about 3 hours ago

Nothing is killed. It still exists, it's an open protocol after all. And I choose to use it, it's pretty fun to calmly follow around 2000 feeds from - mostly - blogs from HN. And cars... I need my car blogs.

geodel•about 2 hours ago

Agreed. That nowadays people or even big companies find it outside their core competency to host their blog, have atom/RSS feeds is not because big tech killing it.

Introduction to Atom

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