Comments on: Put on your RSS-colored glasses and forget about Atom

By: kL

kL — Mon, 01 May 2006 22:48:54 +0000

Atom 0.3 is a bit dated by now, but there's same thing for Atom 1.0 to RSS2.0

By: Roger Benningfield

Roger Benningfield — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I dunno about anyone else, but that's exactly how I plan to deal with Atom until it's a finalized IETF thingie sometime in 2005 or 2006. You certainly don't deserve bludgeoning for suggesting it.

I may not like the Atom Process, but I do appreciate practical, straightforward solutions to problems... and in a world where Atom exists, transforming it into RSS is just that.

BTW, on previewing this comment, I spotted the following error at the bottom of the page:

MT::App::Comments=HASH(0x834cf4c) Use of uninitialized value in sprintf at /www/www.decafbad.com/docs/mt/lib/MT/Template/Context.pm line 1187.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hey there. I’m the first of the two guys offering an Atom conversion service and I’m here for just yet another shameless plug: the XSL which runs my service is public and anybody can play with it with tools such as xsltproc. It’s over here:

http://cavedoni.com/2004/02/rss1.xsl

End of the show.

By: Antonio Cavedoni

Antonio Cavedoni — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Broken broken broken: I did put my name, email address and URL in there but MT somehow mangled it. Anyway, my name is Antonio Cavedoni and I often go on IRC by the nickname “verbosus”.

By: Michael Pate

Michael Pate — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

“It means you can forget about Atom. Whenever you see an Atom feed, just put on your RSS-colored glasses.”

Of course, it is just as possible as to forget as RSS.

http://www.libraryplanet.com/2004/03/2

By: l.m.orchard

l.m.orchard — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Michael: SHH! I don’t want to get into that! (Heh, heh)

By: Steve Kirks

Steve Kirks — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Leslie:

Welcome back–I’ve kept you in my aggregator, specifically because of the writing and the clever graphic on the site “When I Grow Up I Want To Be”.

Right now, RSS is fine for me. Maybe Atom is the answer to the unasked question of the future. By the way, I read Mark Pilgrim’s site using a site called 2rss

http://www.2rss.com/atom2rss.php?atom=http://diveintomark.org/xml/atom.xml

By: Mean Dean

Mean Dean — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Man, where is Rodney King when you need him ...

"Can't we all just get along ..."

I commented about this confusion back in Febrary (click on my name for article). Personally, I list both formats because I'd rather not deal with zealot-mail from either side of the argument.

Personally, I do thing if Pilgrim can get an XSLT defined soas 'one transform fits all browsers' then I suspect you might see this quickly implemented by Blogger and MT. How the RSS camp will respond ... I dunno.

... then again, I've been wrong before.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I get a 403 forbidden error when trying to snarf Mark Pilgrim’s Atom feed with a Java http client. What an ass.

By: Taka

Taka — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

We’ve had an XSLT processor in Awasu for a while but it’s much more than just a NeatLikeDigitalWatches idea. Anything that provides information as XML e.g. web services can be converted to RSS and monitored in Awasu. That’s a mighty powerful feature IMHO :-)

By: nick

nick — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I’m surprised no one has mentioned FeedBurner (http://www.feedburner.com/) as a (free) way to convert Atom to RSS (any flavor) and vice-versa. They even have a feature to “pretty up” the raw XML so it can be viewed in a normal web browser when Random Q. Someuser goes “Gee, im going to click on this orange button to see what it does”. Anyways, I love it & use it to ‘burn’ my Blogger generated Atom feeds to RSS 2.0 (http://feeds.feedburner.com/dkhan) - It even picked up my favicon!

By: Lockergnome's RSS & Atom Tips

Lockergnome's RSS & Atom Tips — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Forget about Atom

"I’ve got a pair of RSS-colored glasses for all the Atom haters out there. Actually, they’re not my glasses, but this one guy’s offering a service and this other guy’s offering some XSLT — both or either of these can help ...