Atom

Structuringthe meta data of the index and summaryetc.of the Web sight, the XMLbasedformat which you describe. It is used to releasing the information of renewal of the sight mainly. The web logof part(???) and the web log tool and the RSS reader etc. correspond to Atom.

It is RSS and similar technology, butthe version which does not have plural compatibilityinRSS appearing, Atom was devised from the fact that the specificationof RDF wherethe respectivesupporteris opposed, has become the cause of RSS is troublesome,as a completely new format. At the beginning it was called in the name, "Echo", but because there are those of

the same name to existing open source project, it became present name.In the same way as RSS,it candescribe the title, address, the index, summary and renewal time etc. of each page of the Web sight. By transmitting information with Atom,information of renewalof the many Web sight grasping efficiently with standardized method it is possible.Standardized call code "Atom API "of the software of Atom correspondence is stipulated as the attempt whichdiffersfrom RSS. It becomes mutually easy to cooperate due tothe fact thatthe programof the web log tool and the like mounts Atom API.