Atom extension

Introduction

This extension provides support for the Atom standard. Atom is an evolution of the RSS standard that was introduced to remove know limitations and enable new features and usages, especially in the light of the REST principles.

Its main purpose it to define a format to represent Web feeds such as news feed. This is called the Atom Syndication Format.

The second purpose is to support the publication and modification of those Web feeds, remotely on the Web and in an interoperable manner. This is called the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP).

Description

The Restlet extension for Atom provides a complete Atom API for both Web feeds and publication documents. This API is capable of both parsing and formatting Atom and APP XML documents compliants with the 1.0 specifications.