RSS - Comparison With Atom

Comparison With Atom

Both RSS and Atom are widely supported in all major consumer feed readers. RSS has gained widespread distribution through feed reader implementations earlier than Atom, which led to higher popularity. However, Atom has several advantages over RSS, such as less restrictive licensing, IANA registered MIME type, an XML namespace, support for relative URIs, and Relax NG support. Technically, Atom should be considered the more advanced syndication format between the two.

The following table summarizes those RSS elements that have their equivalents in Atom.

RSS 2.0 Atom 1.0
author author
category category
channel feed
copyright rights
description subtitle
description summary and/or content
generator generator
guid id
image logo
item entry
lastBuildDate (in channel) updated
link link
managingEditor author or contributor
pubDate published (subelement of entry)
title title
ttl -

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