Joe Gregorio: 'Version 8 of the draft Atom API for weblog authoring has just been released. The new version contains substantial changes from version 7, which was covered by Mark Pilgrim in a recent XML.com article "The Atom API ". '
Last month I looked at the Necho message format. I compared it to RSS, its predecessor. In this column, I want to look at its API. Joe Gregorio is the main author of the API, written in the IETF RFC format.
Joe Gregorio: "One of the key features of the AtomAPI is it's potential for extensibity. As an example of that kind of extensiblity here in an outline of one way the AtomAPI could be enhanced in a completely safe way by a vendor. The example I am going to
Joe Gregorio: "The current revision of the AtomAPI is contains quite a few changes from previous revisions. All of those changes have been talked about seperately, but when put together represent a fairly large change to the API. Here is Quick Reference
This document describes TypePad's implementation of the Atom API. This documentation and TypePad's Atom implementation are preliminary and may change until version 1.0 of both the Atom specification and of this document.