What are Atom and RSS feed? Which is better for Website?
Web syndication is an amazing way to get information on current updates. Web syndication is a form of syndication where a separate website provides information on the current updates of another website which may include anything from a latest news or forum posts. Sometimes, licensing a website’s contents to make other websites use it is also termed syndication.
When we talk of web syndication, we can say that web feeds are also a form of syndication. After all, web feeds provide us updated information of a particular website. Talking of web feeds, the two names that come to our mind are Atom and RSS. Atom and RSS are the best known formats over which web feeds are possible.
When we are talking of the best two in the field then the obvious question arises is that which is better? Atom or RSS? The answer is not easy because there is simply no definite answer to this question. It all depends on what your requirements are. RSS, of course was the first feed format available. RSS stands for ‘REAL SIMPLE SYNDICATION‘.
Atom on the other hand arose out of the need to address the few shortcomings that the RSS feed format had. Yet the faithful still continue to use RSS. Atom has gathered its own followers sticking to it. Many,I believe continue to use both. Atom 1.0 being a late addition is more feature rich than RSS 2.0. Though the numbers mislead people into thinking that RSS is more advanced.
RSS definitely has its positives but Atom out performs RSS as far as features are concerned. Below is a list of areas where Atom clearly has the upper hand
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