Atom Syndication Feed – RSS replacer
July 13, 2009 2 Comments
These days I noticed a new syndication format – Atom, I saw it in a number of web sites I always use: such as MSDN, Twitter, Google Reader and so on, I was thinking whether I need update my life blog (WayneYe.com) to support Atom.
By investigating, I learnt:
The name Atom applies to a pair of related standards. The Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds, while the Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub or APP) is a simple HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating web resources.
Here is a typical Aom example copied from IETF RFC4287:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <feed xmlns="<a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom%22">http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"</a>> <title type="text">dive into mark</title> <subtitle type="html"> A <em>lot</em> 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="<a href="http://example.org/%22/">http://example.org/"/</a>> <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="<a href="http://example.org/feed.atom%22/">http://example.org/feed.atom"/</a>> <rights>Copyright (c) 2003, Mark Pilgrim</rights> <generator uri="<a href="http://www.example.com/%22">http://www.example.com/"</a> version="1.0"> Example Toolkit </generator> <entry> <title>Atom draft-07 snapshot</title> <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="<a href="http://example.org/2005/04/02/atom%22/">http://example.org/2005/04/02/atom"/</a>> <link rel="enclosure" type="audio/mpeg" length="1337" href="<a href="http://example.org/audio/ph34r_my_podcast.mp3%22/">http://example.org/audio/ph34r_my_podcast.mp3"/</a>> <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><a href="http://example.org/">http://example.org/</a></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="<a href="http://diveintomark.org/%22">http://diveintomark.org/"</a>> <div xmlns="<a href="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml%22">http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"</a>> <p><i>[Update: The Atom draft is finished.]</i></p> </div> </content> </entry> </feed>
Why Atom?
I found a grate comparison article from iis.net – The world of Syndication: Atom 1.0 vs. RSS 2.0?
| Atom 1.0 | RSS 2.0 | Who wins? | |
| Content Model | Allows text, escaped HTML, well-formed XHTML, XML, base-64 encoded binary or pointer to web content outside the feed. | Text or Escaped HTML | This is a major advantage for Atom, writing escaped HTML affects the readability of RSS feeds |
| Partial Content | Has separate <summary> or<content> tags. | Has a <description> field. This could contain complete content or just synopsis but has no way of identifying what it contains. | This is another win for Atom, helps you have a synopsis and complete view inside a feed reader |
| Auto Discovery | Uses the MIME Type application/atom+xml which is registered with IANA. In addition the feed has a self link to enable auto subscription in readers | The MIME Typeapplication/rss+xml is often used but not recognized by IANA | Having a registered MIME Type and auto subscription really helps discovery. Another Atom win. |
| Format Flexibility | Atom syndication format allows entries linking to the feed or standalone entries | RSS only recognizes a <rss>document. | This is also an Atom win, having standalone entries enables scenarios like linking to entries only. |
| Extensibility | Atom defines a well-defined structure to extend the default namespace and has specific guidelines on readers should interpret these. | RSS has to fixed namespace, however you could include external XML namespaces. | Atom has a slight advantage here as external namespaces extensions in RSS are not easily discoverable. In Atom’s case these extensions have a corresponding namespace tag |
| Languages | Atom uses xml:lang for language specificity | RSS has a separate<language> tag for language specificity | No one. |
| Encryption | Atom allows the option to encrypt entries using XML Encryption orXML Digital Signature. In addition the feed could be encrypted entire feed using standard web encryption techniques | RSS only allows encrypting using standard web encryption techniques. | Atom has extra level of encryption possible. |
| Adoption | Most sites that publish both RSS and Atom feeds. | Most sites that publish both RSS and Atom feeds. | RSS has an advantage of being the first mover, the term RSS has become synonymous with syndication. |
| Modularity | All elements part of Atom’s namespace can be used outside Atom’s context due to way it was designed | RSS elements cannot be used outside the context of RSS | This has proved to be the one of the major factors of Atom’s popularity and its used in data interactions like those enabled by Google GData |
As a conclusion, Atom has a number of advantages compares to RSS format, it has been adopted by Microsoft, Google, Twitter and many other famous companied/organizations, and I believe Atom will be more and more popular in future. I take Twitter search API as an Atom application example, Twitter provided a search API which supports Atom as returned data type:
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q={search keyword}
While I try: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=wayne, it returns:
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<td><title>lollipop - lil wayne #np</title></td>
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<td><content type="html">lollipop - lil <b>wayne</b> <a href="<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23np"">http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23np"</a> onclick="pageTracker._setCustomVar(2, 'result_type', 'recent', 3);pageTracker._trackPageview('/intra/hashtag/#np');">#np</a></content></td>
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<td><title>RT @tashabeee: hi @birdman5star please stop making songs with wayne. im tired of skipping your verse. thanks bye</title></td>
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<td><content type="html">RT <a href="<a href="http://twitter.com/tashabeee">@tashabeee</a>:">http://twitter.com/tashabeee">@tashabeee</a>:</a> hi <a href="<a href="http://twitter.com/birdman5star">@birdman5star</a>">http://twitter.com/birdman5star">@birdman5star</a></a> please stop making songs with <b>wayne</b>. im tired of skipping your verse. thanks bye</content></td>
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<td><title>Big Media USA Announces the Addition of Wayne Gurnick's Wedding Planning ... <a href="http://bit.ly/94NlG3">http://bit.ly/94NlG3</a></title></td>
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<td><content type="html">Big Media USA Announces the Addition of <b>Wayne</b> Gurnick&apos;s Wedding Planning ... <a href="<a href="http://bit.ly/94NlG3">http://bit.ly/94NlG3</a>">http://bit.ly/94NlG3">http://bit.ly/94NlG3</a></a></content></td>
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<td><title>Gov. Rick Perry set to take next step, onto national stage: By WAYNE SLATER / The Dallas Morning News The Republic... <a href="http://bit.ly/aflxjk">http://bit.ly/aflxjk</a></title></td>
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<td><content type="html">Gov. Rick Perry set to take next step, onto national stage: By <b>WAYNE</b> SLATER / The Dallas Morning News The Republic... <a href="<a href="http://bit.ly/aflxjk">http://bit.ly/aflxjk</a>">http://bit.ly/aflxjk">http://bit.ly/aflxjk</a></a></content></td>
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<td><title>RT @mustbeloaded: if i end up like ti...wayne...gucci...and boosie......just make sure you get one of the black t's.....#FREETRELL</title></td>
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<td><content type="html">RT <a href="<a href="http://twitter.com/mustbeloaded">@mustbeloaded</a>:">http://twitter.com/mustbeloaded">@mustbeloaded</a>:</a> if i end up like ti...<b>wayne</b>...gucci...and boosie......just make sure you get one of the black t&apos;s.....<a href="<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23FREETRELL"">http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23FREETRELL"</a> onclick="pageTracker._setCustomVar(2, 'result_type', 'recent', 3);pageTracker._trackPageview('/intra/hashtag/#FREETRELL');">#FREETRELL</a></content></td>
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<td><content type="html">dwayne <b>wayne</b> shades .... Minus the frames <a href="<a href="http://plixi.com/p/54700453">http://plixi.com/p/54700453</a>">http://plixi.com/p/54700453">http://plixi.com/p/54700453</a></a></content></td>
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<td><link type="text/html" href="<a href="http://twitter.com/Xizou/statuses/29556200416">http://twitter.com/Xizou/statuses/29556200416</a>" rel="alternate"/></td>
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<td><title>RT @OfficialGuzzy: Nao entendo a galera q fala q o Lil Wayne,Drake,Eminem nao mandam bem na rima...se vc e um,ou nao entende Ingles ou nao entende RAP #rapBR</title></td>
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<td><content type="html">RT <a href="<a href="http://twitter.com/OfficialGuzzy">@OfficialGuzzy</a>:">http://twitter.com/OfficialGuzzy">@OfficialGuzzy</a>:</a> Nao entendo a galera q fala q o Lil <b>Wayne</b>,Drake,Eminem nao mandam bem na rima...se vc e um,ou nao entende Ingles ou nao entende RAP <a href="<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23rapBR"">http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23rapBR"</a> onclick="pageTracker._setCustomVar(2, 'result_type', 'recent', 3);pageTracker._trackPageview('/intra/hashtag/#rapBR');">#rapBR</a></content></td>
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<td><updated>2010-11-03T09:43:05Z</updated></td>
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<td><twitter:source><a href="<a href="http://www.ubertwitter.com/bb/download.php"">http://www.ubertwitter.com/bb/download.php"</a> rel="nofollow">ÜberTwitter</a></twitter:source></td>
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<td><twitter:lang>pt</twitter:lang></td>
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<td><name>Xizou (XIzou)</name></td>
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Coding it
Now I realized that Atom should be a trend, so I decide to support Atom in my life blog (WayneYe.com) developed by myself. I found there are already some great libraries doing such kind of things such as Atom.NET, however, the pity is most of them seemed seriously out of date… So I decide do it myself as usual
I supposed to manually created an “Atom.xml” file and expose it to web site, in additional, I hope it is RESTful, I use this:
http://WayneYe.com/Atom
I wrote C# code snippet below to generate and CRUD the Atom.xml, Blog is an O/R Mapping entity class written by me, it is nothing special with some properties:
Constants definition:
public const String AtomTitle = "Wayne的自由空间";
public const String AtomSubtitle = "Wayne's Atom Syndication Feed";
public const String AtomNamespace = "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";
public const String AtomUri = "http://wayneye.com/Atom";
public const String AtomAlternateUri = "http://wayneye.com/Feeds/Atom.xml";
public const int MaximumEntryCount = 15;
Regenerate Atom Xml Feed:
public static void RegenerateAtom()
{
if (File.Exists(AtomHandler.AtomFilePath)) File.Delete(AtomHandler.AtomFilePath);
XNamespace atomXmln = AtomNamespace; // Declare the Atom XML namespace first
XDocument atomXml = new XDocument(new XDeclaration("1.0", "utf-8", "yes"),
new XElement(atomXmln + "feed", new XAttribute(XNamespace.Xml + "lang", "zh-CN"),
new XElement(atomXmln + "title", new XAttribute("type", "html"), AtomTitle),
new XElement(atomXmln + "subtitle", new XAttribute("type", "html"), AtomSubtitle),
new XElement(atomXmln + "id", AtomUri),
new XElement(atomXmln + "link", new XAttribute("rel", "alternate"), new XAttribute("type", "text/html"), new XAttribute("href", Constants.WayneYeUri)),
new XElement(atomXmln + "link", new XAttribute("rel", "self"), new XAttribute("type", "application/atom+xml"), new XAttribute("href", AtomAlternateUri)),
new XElement(atomXmln + "updated", DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime())));
var entries = new List();
var entryCount = 0;
foreach (var blog in Blog.LoadAllBlogs(BlogVisibility.Public, false))
{
blog.HyperLink = String.Format("{0}ViewBlog.aspx?BlogID={1}", WayneBlogMaster.ServerRoot, blog.Id);
if (entryCount == MaximumEntryCount) break; // Maximum entry count is 15 by default
entries.Add(ConvertBlogToAtomEntry(blog, false));
entryCount++;
}
atomXml.Root.Add(entries);
atomXml.Save(AtomHandler.AtomFilePath);
}
Create new blog entry
public static void AddBlogEntry(Blog b)
{
XNamespace atomXmln = AtomNamespace;
XDocument atomXml = XDocument.Load(AtomFilePath);
XElement newEntry = ConvertBlogToAtomEntry(b, false);
atomXml.Root.LastNode.Remove(); // Remove oldest blog entry
// Insert this new blog entry at top position
// NOTES: while querying, I need explicitly specify the element's namespace
atomXml.Root.Elements(atomXmln + "entry").First().AddBeforeSelf(newEntry);
atomXml.Save(AtomFilePath);
}
Update an existing blog entry
public static void UpdateBlogEntry(Blog b)
{
XNamespace atomXmln = AtomNamespace;
var atomXml = XDocument.Load(AtomFilePath);
var newEntry = ConvertBlogToAtomEntry(b, true);
if (atomXml.Root.Descendants(atomXmln + "entry").Any(
xe => xe.Element(atomXmln + "id").Value.Equals(b.HyperLink))) // Check entry existense
{
var blogEntry =
atomXml.Root.Descendants(atomXmln + "entry").Single(
xe => xe.Element(atomXmln + "id").Value.Equals(b.HyperLink));
blogEntry.ReplaceWith(newEntry); // Replace the entried entry node
atomXml.Save(AtomFilePath);
}
else
{
// Do nothing since this blog which supposed to be editted does not exist in the Atom.xml
}
}
Important Notes
1. You might noticed that in my generating Atom code I explicitly specify XML Namespace to every child nodes, actually this is NOT redundant, if I don’t do that, the generated XML would like below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?> <feed xml:lang="zh-CN" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <title type="html" xmlns="">Wayne的自由空间</title> <subtitle type="html" xmlns="">Wayne's Atom Syndication Feed</subtitle> <id xmlns="">http://wayneye.com/Atom</id> ... ...
2. Similar tricky like #1 above, while doing Linq query, I MUST specify XML Namespace explicitly too, otherwise I couldn’t get any result.
3. I noticed that most Atom feeds contain ONLY 15 entries, so far I didn’t find out the reason for this, I just simply follow them, i.e. I also let my Atom feed contains 15 entries, that’s why I raised:
public const int MaximumEntryCount = 15; // Of course I can store this value inside config file
Updated on Nov 3rd 2010, I also noticed that WCF 4.0 is officially supporting Atom, it is called Syndication Service Library: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb412203.aspx
In Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), syndication feeds are modeled as another type of service operation, one where the return type is one of the derived classes of SyndicationFeedFormatter. The retrieval of a feed is modeled as a request-response message exchange. A client sends a request to the service and the service responds. The request message is set over an infrastructure protocol (for example, raw HTTP) and the response message contains a payload that consists of a commonly understood syndication format (RSS 2.0 or Atom 1.0). Services that implement these message exchanges are referred to as syndication services.
Hum, I will study it some day..
References
Atom Wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)
IETF – The Atom Syndication Format
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287
W3C Feed Validation Service
http://validator.w3.org/feed/
A Short Introduction to the Atom Publishing Protocol
http://exist.sourceforge.net/atompub.html
Google provided URL to convert RSS to Atom
http://www.google.com/reader/atom/feed/{url-to-convert}
RSS/Atom libraries
RSS.NET http://www.rssdotnet.com/
Atom.NET http://atomnet.sourceforge.net/
ASP.Net RSS Toolkit http://aspnetrsstoolkit.codeplex.com/
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