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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