Network Working Group M. Nottingham, Ed. Internet-Draft R. Sayre, Ed. Expires: October 2, 2005 March 31, 2005 The Atom Syndication Format draft-ietf-atompub-format-07 Status of this Memo This document is an Internet-Draft and is subject to all provisions of Section 3 of RFC 3667. By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she become aware will be disclosed, in accordance with RFC 3668. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on October 2, 2005. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005). Abstract This document specifies Atom, an XML-based Web content and metadata syndication format. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 1] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.1 Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2. Atom Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3. Common Atom Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.1 Text Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.1.1 The "type" Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.2 Person Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.2.1 The "atom:name" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.2.2 The "atom:uri" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.2.3 The "atom:email" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.3 Date Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4. Atom Element Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4.1 Container Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4.1.1 The "atom:feed" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4.1.2 The "atom:entry" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 4.1.3 The "atom:content" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 4.2 Metadata Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 4.2.1 The "atom:author" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 4.2.2 The "atom:category" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 4.2.3 The "atom:contributor" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 4.2.4 The "atom:copyright" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 4.2.5 The "atom:generator" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 4.2.6 The "atom:icon" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 4.2.7 The "atom:id" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 4.2.8 The "atom:image" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 4.2.9 The "atom:link" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4.2.10 The "atom:published" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 4.2.11 The "atom:source" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 4.2.12 The "atom:subtitle" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 4.2.13 The "atom:summary" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 4.2.14 The "atom:title" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 4.2.15 The "atom:updated" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 5. Securing Atom Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 6. Extending Atom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 9.1 Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 9.2 Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 A. Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 B. Collected RELAX NG Compact Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 C. Change Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . 50 Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 1. Introduction Atom is an XML-based document format that describes lists of related information known as "feeds". Feeds are composed of a number of items, known as "entries", each with an extensible set of attached metadata. For example, each entry has a title. The primary use case that Atom addresses is the syndication of Web content such as Weblogs and news headlines to Web sites as well as directly to user agents. However, nothing precludes it from being used for other purposes and kinds of content. 1.1 Examples A minimal, single-entry Atom Feed Document: Example Feed 2003-12-13T18:30:02Z John Doe Atom-Powered Robots Run Amok urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a 2003-12-13T18:30:02Z Some text. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 A more extensive, single-entry Atom Feed Document: dive into mark A <em>lot</em> of effort went into making this effortless 2005-04-02T12:29:29Z tag:example.org,2003:3 Copyright (c) 2003, Mark Pilgrim Example Toolkit Atom draft-07 snapshot tag:example.org,2003:3.2397 2005-04-02T12:29:29Z 2003-12-13T08:29:29-04:00 Mark Pilgrim http://example.org/ f8dy@example.com Sam Ruby http://intertwingly.net/blog/ Joe Gregorio http://bitworking.org/

[Update: The Atom draft-07 snapshot is out.]

Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 4] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 1.2 Notational Conventions This specification describes conformance in terms of two artifacts; Atom Feed Documents and Atom Entry documents. Additionally, it places some requirements on Atom Processors. This specification uses XML Namespaces [W3C.REC-xml-names-19990114] to uniquely identify XML element names. It uses the following namespace prefix for the indicated namespace URI; "atom": http://purl.org/atom/ns#draft-ietf-atompub-format-07 Note that the choice of any namespace prefix is arbitrary and not semantically significant. Atom is specified using terms from the XML Infoset [W3C.REC-xml-infoset-20040204]. However, this specification uses a shorthand for two common terms; the phrase "Information Item" is omitted when naming Element Information Items and Attribute Information Items. Therefore, when this specification uses the term "element," it is referring to an Element Information Item in Infoset terms. Likewise, when it uses the term "attribute," it is referring to an Attribute Information Item. Some sections of this specification are illustrated with fragments of a non-normative RELAX NG Compact schema [RELAX-NG]. However, the text of this specification provides the definition of conformance. A collected schema appears in Appendix B. Some sections of this specification are illustrated with Augmented Backus-Naur Form (ABNF), a format used to represent permissible strings in a protocol or language, as defined in [RFC2234]. The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14, [RFC2119], as scoped to those conformance targets. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 5] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 2. Atom Documents This specification describes two kinds of Atom Documents; Atom Feed Documents and Atom Entry Documents. An Atom Feed Document is a representation of an Atom feed, including metadata about the feed, and some or all of the entries associated with it. Its root is the atom:feed element. An Atom Entry Document represents exactly one Atom entry, outside of the context of an Atom feed. Its root is the atom:entry element. namespace atom = "http://purl.org/atom/ns#draft-ietf-atompub-format-07" start = atomFeed | atomEntry Both kinds of Atom documents are specified in terms of the XML Information Set, serialised as XML 1.0 [W3C.REC-xml-20040204] and identified with the "application/atom+xml" media type. Atom Documents MUST be well-formed XML. Atom constrains the appearance and content of elements and attributes; unless otherwise stated, Atom Documents MAY contain other Information Items as appropriate. Any element defined by this specification MAY have an xml:base attribute. XML Base [W3C.REC-xmlbase-20010627] processing MUST be applied to any relative reference [RFC3987] present in an Atom Document. This includes such elements and attributes as specified by Atom itself, as well as those specified by extensions to Atom. Any element defined by this specification MAY have an xml:lang attribute, whose content indicates the natural language for the element and its children. The language context is only significant for elements and attributes declared to be "language-sensitive" by this specification. Requirements regarding the content and interpretation of xml:lang are specified in XML 1.0 [W3C.REC-xml-20040204], Section 2.12. atomCommonAttributes = attribute xml:base { atomUri }?, attribute xml:lang { atomLanguageTag }? Atom allows the use of IRIs [RFC3987], as well as URIs [RFC3986]. For resolution, IRIs can easily be converted to URIs. When comparing IRIs serving as atom:id values, they MUST NOT be converted to URIs. By definition, every URI is an IRI, so any URI can be used where an IRI is needed. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 6] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 Atom is an extensible format. See the section titled 'Extending Atom' later in this document for a full description of how Atom Documents can be extended. Atom Processors MAY keep state (e.g., metadata in atom:feed, entries) sourced from Atom Feed Documents and combine them with other Atom Feed Documents, in order to facilitate a contiguous view of the contents of a feed. The manner in which Atom Feed Documents are combined in order to reconstruct a feed (e.g., updating entries and metadata, dealing with missing entries) is out of the scope of this specification, but may be defined by an extension to Atom. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 7] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 3. Common Atom Constructs Many of Atom's elements share a few common structures. This section defines those structures and their requirements for convenient reference by the appropriate element definitions. When an element is identified as being a particular kind of construct, it inherits the corresponding requirements from that construct's definition in this section. 3.1 Text Constructs A Text construct contains human-readable text, usually in small quantities. The content of Text constructs is language-sensitive. atomPlainTextConstruct = atomCommonAttributes, attribute type { "text" | "html" }?, text atomXHTMLTextConstruct = atomCommonAttributes, attribute type { "xhtml" }, xhtmlDiv atomTextConstruct = atomPlainTextConstruct | atomXHTMLTextConstruct 3.1.1 The "type" Attribute Text constructs MAY have a "type" attribute. When present, the value MUST be one of "text", "html" or "xhtml". If the "type" attribute is not provided, Atom Processors MUST behave as though it were present with a value of "text". Note that MIME media types [RFC2045] are not acceptable values for the "type" attribute. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 8] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 3.1.1.1 Text Example atom:title with text content: ... Less: < ... If the value is "text", the content of the Text construct MUST NOT contain child elements. Such text is intended to be presented to humans in a readable fashion. Thus, Atom Processors MAY display it using normal text rendering techniques such as proportional fonts, white-space collapsing, and justification. 3.1.1.2 HTML Example atom:title with HTML content: ... Less: <em> &lt; </em> ... If the value of "type" is "html", the content of the Text construct MUST NOT contain child elements, and SHOULD be suitable for handling as HTML [W3C.REC-html401-19991224]. Any markup within MUST be escaped; for example, "
" as "<br>". HTML markup within SHOULD be such that it could validly appear directly within an HTML
element, after unescaping. Atom Processors that display such content MAY use that markup to aid in its display. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 9] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 3.1.1.3 XHTML Example atom:title with XHTML content: ... <xhtml:div> Less: <xhtml:em> < </xhtml:em> </xhtml:div> ... If the value of "type" is "xhtml", the content of the Text construct MUST be a single XHTML div element [W3C.REC-xhtml-basic-20001219]. The XHTML div MUST contain XHTML text and markup that could validly appear within an XHTML div element. The XHTML div element itself MUST NOT be considered part of the content. Atom Processors which display the content MAY use the markup to aid in displaying it. Escaped characters, such as "&" and ">", represent those characters, not markup. Examples of valid XHTML content: ...
This is XHTML content.
... This is XHTML content. ... The following example assumes that the XHTML namespace has been bound to the "xh" prefix earlier in the document: ... This is XHTML content. ... Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 10] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 3.2 Person Constructs A Person construct is an element that describes a person, corporation, or similar entity (hereafter, 'person'). atomPersonConstruct = atomCommonAttributes, (element atom:name { text } & element atom:uri { atomUri }? & element atom:email { atomEmailAddress }? & extensionElement*) This specification assigns no significance to the order of appearance of the child elements in a Person construct. Person constructs allow extension Metadata Elements (see Section 6.4). 3.2.1 The "atom:name" Element The "atom:name" element's content conveys a human-readable name for the person. The content of atom:name is language-sensitive. Person constructs MUST contain exactly one "atom:name" element. 3.2.2 The "atom:uri" Element The "atom:uri" element's content conveys an IRI associated with the person. Person constructs MAY contain an atom:uri element, but MUST NOT contain more than one. The content of atom:uri in a Person construct MUST be an IRI reference [RFC3987]. 3.2.3 The "atom:email" Element The "atom:email" element's content conveys an e-mail address associated with the person. Person constructs MAY contain an atom:email element, but MUST NOT contain more than one. Its content MUST conform to the addr-spec BNF rule in [RFC2822]. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 11] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 3.3 Date Constructs A Date construct is an element whose content MUST conform to the extended date-time form ABNF rule in [RFC3339]. In addition, an uppercase "T" character MUST be used to separate date and time, and an uppercase "Z" character MUST be present in the absence of a numeric time zone offset. atomDateConstruct = atomCommonAttributes, xsd:dateTime Such date values happen to be compatible with the following specifications: [ISO.8601.1988], [W3C.NOTE-datetime-19980827], and [W3C.REC-xmlschema-2-20041028]. Date values SHOULD be as accurate as possible. For example, it would be generally inappropriate for a publishing system to apply the same timestamp to several entries which were published during the course of a single day. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 12] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 4. Atom Element Definitions 4.1 Container Elements 4.1.1 The "atom:feed" Element The "atom:feed" element is the document (i.e., top-level) element of an Atom Feed Document, acting as a container for metadata and data associated with the feed. Its element children consist of metadata elements followed by zero or more atom:entry child elements. atomFeed = element atom:feed { atomCommonAttributes, (atomAuthor? & atomCategory* & atomContributor* & atomCopyright? & atomGenerator? & atomIcon? & atomId? & atomImage? & atomLink+ & atomSubtitle? & atomTitle & atomUpdated & extensionElement*), atomEntry* } This specification assigns no significance to the order of atom:entry elements within the feed. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 13] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 The following child elements are defined by this specification (note that the presence of some of these elements is required): o atom:feed elements MUST contain exactly one atom:author element, UNLESS all of the atom:feed element's child atom:entry elements contain an atom:author element. atom:feed elements MUST NOT contain more than one atom:author element. o atom:feed elements MAY contain any number of atom:category elements. o atom:feed elements MAY contain any number of atom:contributor elements. o atom:feed elements MUST NOT contain more than one atom:copyright element. o atom:feed elements MUST NOT contain more than one atom:generator element. o atom:feed elements MUST NOT contain more than one atom:icon element. o atom:feed elements MUST NOT contain more than one atom:image element. o atom:feed elements MUST NOT contain more than one atom:id element. o atom:feed elements MUST contain at least one atom:link element with a relation of "alternate". o atom:feed elements SHOULD contain one atom:link element with a rel attribute value of "self". This URI identifies the feed and a representation equivalent to the feed. o atom:feed elements MUST NOT contain more than one atom:link element with a rel attribute value of "alternate" that has the same type attribute value. If a feed's atom:link element with type="alternate" resolves to an HTML document, then that document SHOULD have a autodiscovery link element [Atom-autodiscovery] that reflects back to the feed. atom:feed elements MAY contain additional atom:link elements beyond those described above. o atom:feed elements MUST NOT contain more than one atom:subtitle element. o atom:feed elements MUST contain exactly one atom:title element. o atom:feed elements MUST contain exactly one atom:updated element. o atom:feed elements MUST NOT contain atom:entry elements with identical atom:id values. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 14] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 4.1.2 The "atom:entry" Element The "atom:entry" element represents an individual entry, acting as a container for metadata and data associated with the entry. This element can appear as a child of the atom:feed element, or it can appear as the document (i.e., top-level) element of a standalone Atom Entry Document. atomEntry = element atom:entry { atomCommonAttributes, (atomAuthor? & atomCategory* & atomContent? & atomContributor* & atomCopyright? & atomId & atomLink* & atomPublished? & atomSource? & atomSummary? & atomTitle & atomUpdated & extensionElement*) } This specification assigns no significance to the order of appearance of the child elements of atom:entry. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 15] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 The following child elements are defined by this specification (note that it requires the presence of some of these elements): o atom:entry elements MUST contain exactly one atom:author element, unless the atom:entry contains an atom:source element which contains an atom:author element, or, in an Atom Feed Document, the atom:feed element contains an atom:author element itself. atom:entry elements MUST NOT contain more than one atom:author element. o atom:entry elements MAY contain any number of atom:category elements. o atom:entry elements MUST NOT contain more than one atom:content element. o atom:entry elements MAY contain any number of atom:contributor elements. o atom:entry elements MUST NOT contain more than one atom:copyright element. o atom:entry elements MUST contain exactly one atom:id element. o atom:entry elements that contain no child atom:content element MUST contain at least one atom:link element with a rel attribute value of "alternate". atom:entry elements MUST NOT contain more than one atom:link element with a rel attribute value of "alternate" that has the same combination of type and hreflang attribute values. atom:entry elements MAY contain additional atom:link elements beyond those described above. o atom:entry elements MUST NOT contain more than one atom:published element. o atom:entry elements MUST NOT contain more than one atom:source element. o atom:entry elements MUST contain an atom:summary element in any of the following cases: * the atom:entry element contains no atom:content element. * the atom:entry contains an atom:content that has a "src" attribute (and is thus empty). * the atom:entry contains content that is encoded in Base64; i.e. the "type" attribute of atom:content is a MIME media type [RFC2045] and does not begin with "text/" nor end with "+xml". o atom:entry elements MUST NOT contain more than one atom:summary element. o atom:entry elements MUST have exactly one "atom:title" element. o atom:entry elements MUST contain exactly one atom:updated element. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 16] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 4.1.3 The "atom:content" Element The "atom:content" element either contains or links to the content of the entry. The content of atom:content is language-sensitive. atomInlineTextContent = element atom:content { atomCommonAttributes, attribute type { "text" | "html" }?, (text)* } atomInlineXHTMLContent = element atom:content { atomCommonAttributes, attribute type { "xhtml" }, xhtmlDiv } atomInlineOtherContent = element atom:content { atomCommonAttributes, attribute type { atomMediaType }?, (text|anyElement)* } atomOutOfLineContent = element atom:content { atomCommonAttributes, attribute type { atomMediaType }?, attribute src { atomUri }, empty } atomContent = atomInlineTextContent | atomInlineXHTMLContent | atomInlineOtherContent | atomOutOfLineContent 4.1.3.1 The "type" attribute atom:content MAY have a "type" attribute. When present, the value MAY be one of "text", "html", or "xhtml". Failing that, it MUST be a MIME media type [RFC2045] with a discrete top-level type (see Section 5 of [RFC2045]). If the type attribute is not provided, Atom Processors MUST behave as though it were present with a value of "text". Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 17] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 4.1.3.2 The "src" attribute atom:content MAY have a "src" attribute, whose value MUST be an IRI reference [RFC3987]. If the "src" attribute is present, Atom Processors MAY use the IRI to retrieve the content. If the "src" attribute is present, atom:content MUST be empty. That is to say, the content may be retrievable using "src=" IRI, or it may be contained within atom:content, but not both. If the "src" attribute is present, the "type" attribute SHOULD be provided and MUST be a MIME media type [RFC2045], rather than "text", "html", or "xhtml". The value is advisory; that is to say, upon dereferencing the IRI to retrieve the content, if the server providing that content also provides a media type, the server-provided media type is authoritative. If the value of type begins with "text/" or ends with "+xml", the content SHOULD be local; that is to say, no "src" attribute should be provided. 4.1.3.3 Processing Model Atom Documents MUST conform to the following rules. Atom Processors MUST interpret atom:content according to the first applicable rule. 1. If the value of "type" is "text", the content of atom:content MUST NOT contain child elements. Such text is intended to be presented to humans in a readable fashion. Thus, Atom Processors MAY display it using normal text rendering techniques such as proportional fonts, white-space collapsing, and justification. 2. If the value of "type" is "html", the content of atom:content MUST NOT contain child elements, and SHOULD be suitable for handling as HTML [W3C.REC-html401-19991224]. The HTML markup must be escaped; for example, "
" as "<br>". The HTML markup SHOULD be such that it could validly appear directly within an HTML
element. Atom Processors that display the content SHOULD use the markup to aid in displaying it. 3. If the value of "type" is "xhtml", the content of atom:content MUST be a single XHTML div element [W3C.REC-xhtml-basic-20001219]. The XHTML div MUST contain XHTML text and markup that could validly appear within an XHTML div element. The XHTML div element itself MUST NOT be considered part of the content. Atom Processors that display the content MAY use the markup to aid in displaying it. Escaped markup is interpreted as a text representation of markup, and MUST NOT be interpreted as markup itself. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 18] 4. If the value of "type" ends with "+xml" or "/xml" (case-insensitive), the content of atom:content may include child elements, and SHOULD be suitable for handling as the indicated media type. If the "src" attribute is not provided, this would normally mean that the "atom:content" element would contain a single child element which would serve as the root element of the XML document of the indicated type. 5. If the value of "type" begins with "text/" (case-insensitive), the content of atom:content MUST NOT contain child elements. 6. For all other values of "type", the content of atom:content MUST be a valid Base64 encoding [RFC3548], which when decoded SHOULD be suitable for handling as the indicated media type. In this case, the characters in the Base64 encoding may be preceded and followed in the atom:content element by whitespace, and lines are separated by a single newline (U+000A) character. 4.1.3.4 Examples XHTML inline: ...
This is XHTML content.
... This is XHTML content. ... The following example assumes that the XHTML namespace has been bound to the "xh" prefix earlier in the document: ... This is XHTML content. ... Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 19] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 4.2 Metadata Elements 4.2.1 The "atom:author" Element The "atom:author" element is a Person construct that indicates the author of the entry or feed. atomAuthor = element atom:author { atomPersonConstruct } 4.2.2 The "atom:category" Element The "atom:category" element conveys information about a category associated with an entry or feed. atomCategory = element atom:category { atomCommonAttributes, attribute term { text }, attribute scheme { atomUri }?, attribute label { text }?, empty } 4.2.2.1 The "term" Attribute The "term" attribute is a string that identifies the category to which the entry or feed belongs. Category elements MUST have a "term" attribute. 4.2.2.2 The "scheme" Attribute The "scheme" attribute is an IRI that identifies a categorization scheme. Category elements MAY have a "scheme" attribute. 4.2.2.3 The "label" attribute The "label" attribute provides a human-readable label for display in end-user applications. The content of the "label" attribute is language-sensitive. Category elements MAY have a "label" attribute. 4.2.3 The "atom:contributor" Element The "atom:contributor" element is a Person construct that indicates a person or other entity who contributed to the entry or feed. atomContributor = element atom:contributor { atomPersonConstruct } Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 20] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 4.2.4 The "atom:copyright" Element The "atom:copyright" element is a Text construct that conveys a human-readable copyright statement for an entry or feed. atomCopyright = element atom:copyright { atomTextConstruct } The atom:copyright element SHOULD NOT be used to convey machine-readable licensing information. If an atom:entry element does not contain an atom:copyright element, then the atom:copyright element of the containing atom:feed element's atom:head element, if present, is considered to apply to the entry. 4.2.5 The "atom:generator" Element The "atom:generator" element's content identifies the agent used to generate a feed, for debugging and other purposes. atomGenerator = element atom:generator { atomCommonAttributes, attribute uri { atomUri }?, attribute version { text }?, text } The content of this element, when present, MUST be a string that is a human-readable name for the generating agent. The atom:generator element MAY have a "uri" attribute whose value MUST be an IRI reference [RFC3987]. When dereferenced, that IRI SHOULD produce a representation that is relevant to that agent. The atom:generator element MAY have a "version" attribute that indicates the version of the generating agent. When present, its value is unstructured text. 4.2.6 The "atom:icon" Element The "atom:icon" element's content is an IRI reference [RFC3987] which identifies an image which provides iconic visual identification for a feed. atomIcon = element atom:icon { atomCommonAttributes, (atomUri) } Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 21] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 The image SHOULD have an aspect ratio of one (horizontal) to one (vertical), and should be suitable for presentation at a small size. 4.2.7 The "atom:id" Element The "atom:id" element conveys a permanent, universally unique identifier for an entry or feed. atomId = element atom:id { atomCommonAttributes, (atomUri) } Its content MUST be an IRI, as defined by [RFC3987]. Note that the definition of "IRI" excludes relative references. Though the IRI might use a dereferencable scheme, Atom Processors MUST NOT assume it can be dereferenced. When an Atom document is relocated, migrated, syndicated, republished, exported or imported, the content of its atom:id element MUST NOT change. Put another way, an atom:id element pertains to all instantiations of a particular Atom entry or feed; revisions retain the same content in their atom:id elements. It is suggested that the atom:id element be stored along with the associated resource. The content of an atom:id element MUST be created in a way that assures uniqueness. Because of the risk of confusion between IRIs that would be equivalent if dereferenced, the following normalization strategy is strongly encouraged when generating atom:id elements: o Provide the scheme in lowercase characters. o Provide the host, if any, in lowercase characters. o Only perform percent-encoding where it is essential. o Use uppercase A-through-F characters when percent-encoding. o Prevent dot-segments appearing in paths. o For schemes that define a default authority, use an empty authority if the default is desired. o For schemes that define an empty path to be equivalent to a path of "/", use "/". o For schemes that define a port, use an empty port if the default is desired. o Preserve empty fragment identifiers and queries. o Ensure that all components of the IRI are appropriately character-normalized, e.g. by using NFC or NFKC. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 22] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 4.2.7.1 Comparing atom:id Instances of atom:id elements can be compared to determine whether an entry or feed is the same as one seen before. Processors MUST compare atom:id elements on a character-by-character basis (in a case-sensitive fashion). Comparison operations MUST be based solely on the IRI character strings, and MUST NOT rely on dereferencing the IRIs. As a result, two IRIs that resolve to the same resource but are not character-for-character identical will be considered different for the purposes of identifier comparison. For example: http://www.example.org/thing http://www.example.org/Thing http://www.EXAMPLE.org/thing HTTP://www.example.org/thing are four distinct identifiers, despite their differences in case. Likewise, http://www.example.com/~bob http://www.example.com/%7ebob http://www.example.com/%7Ebob are three distinct identifiers, because IRI %-escaping is significant for the purposes of comparison. 4.2.8 The "atom:image" Element The "atom:image" element's content is an IRI reference [RFC3987] which identifies an image which provides visual identification for a feed. atomImage = element atom:image { atomCommonAttributes, (atomUri) } The image SHOULD have an aspect ratio of 2 (horizontal) to 1 (vertical). Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 23] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 4.2.9 The "atom:link" Element The "atom:link" element is an empty element that defines a reference from an entry or feed to a Web resource. atomLink = element atom:link { atomCommonAttributes, attribute href { atomUri }, attribute rel { atomNCName | atomUri }?, attribute type { atomMediaType }?, attribute hreflang { atomLanguageTag }?, attribute title { text }?, attribute length { text }?, empty } 4.2.9.1 The "href" Attribute The "href" attribute contains the link's IRI. atom:link elements MUST have a href attribute, whose value MUST be a IRI reference [RFC3987]. 4.2.9.2 The "rel" Attribute atom:link elements MAY have a "rel" attribute that indicates the link relation type. If the "rel" attribute is not present, the link element MUST be interpreted as if the link relation type is "alternate". ABNF for the "rel" attribute: rel_attribute = isegment-nz-nc / IRI The value of "rel" MUST be string that is non-empty, does not contain any colon (":") characters, and matches the "isegment-nz-nc" or "IRI" ABNF forms in [RFC3987]. Note that use of a relative reference is not allowed. If a name is given, implementations MUST consider the link relation type to be equivalent to the same name registered within the IANA Registry of Link Relations Section 7, and thus the IRI that would be obtained by appending the value of the rel attribute to the string "http://www.iana.org/assignments/relation/". The value of "rel" describes the meaning of the link, but does not impose any behavioral requirements on implementations. This document defines five initial values for the Registry of Link Relations: Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 24] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 1. The value "alternate" signifies that the IRI in the value of the href attribute identifies an alternate version of the resource described by the containing element. 2. The value "related" signifies that the IRI in the value of the href attribute identifies a resource related to the resource described by the containing element. For example, the feed for a site that discusses the performance of the search engine at "http://search.example.com" might contain, as a child of atom:feed: An identical link might appear as a child of any atom:entry whose content contains a discussion of that same search engine. 3. The value "self" signifies that the IRI in the value of the href attribute identifies a resource equivalent to the containing element. 4. The value "enclosure" signifies that the IRI in the value of the href attribute identifies a related resource which is potentially large in size and may require special handling by consuming software. For Link elements with rel="enclosure", the length attribute SHOULD be provided. 5. The value "via" signifies that the IRI in the value of the href attribute identifies a resource that is the source of the information provided in the containing element. 4.2.9.3 The "type" Attribute The "type" attribute's value is an advisory media type; it is a hint about the type of the representation that is expected to be returned when the value of the href attribute is dereferenced. Note that the type attribute does not override the actual media type returned with the representation. Link elements MAY have a type attribute, whose value MUST conform to the syntax of a MIME media type [RFC2045]. 4.2.9.4 The "hreflang" Attribute The "hreflang" attribute's content describes the language of the resource pointed to by the href attribute. When used together with the rel="alternate", it implies a translated version of the entry. Link elements MAY have an hreflang attribute, whose value MUST be a language tag [RFC3066]. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 25] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 4.2.9.5 The "title" Attribute The "title" attribute conveys human-readable information about the link. The content of the "title" attribute is language sensitive. Link elements MAY have a title attribute. 4.2.9.6 The "length" Attribute The "length" attribute indicates an advisory length of the linked content in octets; it is a hint about the content length of the representation returned when the IRI in the href attribute is dereferenced. Note that the length attribute does not override the actual content length of the representation as reported by the underlying protocol. Link elements MAY have a length attribute. 4.2.10 The "atom:published" Element The "atom:published" element is a Date construct indicating an instant in time associated with an event early in the life cycle of the entry. atomPublished = element atom:published { atomDateConstruct } Typically, atom:published will be associated with the initial creation or first availability of the resource. 4.2.11 The "atom:source" Element If an atom:entry is copied from one feed into another feed, then the source atom:feed's metadata (all child elements of atom:feed other than the atom:entry elements) MAY be preserved within the copied entry by adding an atom:source child element, if it is not already present in the entry, and including some or all of the source feed's metadata elements as the atom:source element's children. Such metadata SHOULD be preserved if the source atom:feed contains any of the child elements atom:author, atom:contributor, atom:copyright, or atom:category and those child elements are not present in the source atom:entry. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 26] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 atomSource = element atom:source { atomCommonAttributes, (atomAuthor? & atomCategory* & atomContributor* & atomCopyright? & atomGenerator? & atomIcon? & atomId? & atomImage? & atomLink+ & atomSubtitle? & atomTitle & atomUpdated & extensionElement*) } 4.2.12 The "atom:subtitle" Element The "atom:subtitle" element is a Text construct that conveys a human-readable description or subtitle for a feed. atomSubtitle = element atom:subtitle { atomTextConstruct } 4.2.13 The "atom:summary" Element The "atom:summary" element is a Text construct that conveys a short summary, abstract or excerpt of an entry. atomSummary = element atom:summary { atomTextConstruct } 4.2.14 The "atom:title" Element The "atom:title" element is a Text construct that conveys a human-readable title for an entry or feed. atomTitle = element atom:title { atomTextConstruct } 4.2.15 The "atom:updated" Element The "atom:updated" element is a Date construct indicating the most recent instant in time when an entry or feed was modified in a way the publisher considers significant. Therefore, not all modifications necessarily result in a changed atom:updated value. atomUpdated = element atom:updated { atomDateConstruct } Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 27] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 Publishers MAY change the value of this element over time. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 28] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 5. Securing Atom Documents Because Atom is an XML-based format, existing XML security mechanisms can be used to secure its content. 5.1 Digital Signatures The root of an Atom document (i.e., atom:feed in an Atom Feed Document, atom:entry in an Atom Entry Document) MAY have an Enveloped Signature, as described by XML-Signature and Syntax Processing [W3C.REC-xmldsig-core-20020212]. Processors MUST NOT reject an Atom Document containing such a signature because they are not capable of verifying it; they MUST continue processing and MAY inform the user of their failure to validate the signature. In other words, the presence of an element with the namespace URI "http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" and a local name of "Signature" as a child of the document element must not cause an Atom Processor to fail merely because of its presence. Other elements in an Atom Document MUST NOT be signed unless their definitions explicitly specify such a capability. 5.2 Encryption The root of an Atom Document (i.e., atom:feed in an Atom Feed Document, atom:entry in an Atom Entry Document) MAY be encrypted, using the mechanisms described by XML Encryption Syntax and Processing [W3C.REC-xmlenc-core-20021210]. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 29] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 6. Extending Atom 6.1 Extensions From Non-Atom Vocabularies This specification describes Atom's XML markup vocabulary. Markup from other vocabularies ("foreign markup") can be used in an Atom document. Note that the atom:content element is designed to support the inclusion of arbitrary foreign markup. 6.2 Extensions To the Atom Vocabulary Future versions of this specification may add new elements and attributes to the Atom markup vocabulary. Software written to conform to this version of the specification will not be able to process such markup correctly and, in fact, will not be able to distinguish it from markup error. For the purposes of this discussion, unrecognized markup from the Atom vocabulary will be considered "foreign markup". 6.3 Software Processing of Foreign Markup Software processing an Atom Document which encounters foreign markup in a location that is legal according to this specification MUST NOT stop processing or signal an error. It may be the case that the software is able to process the foreign markup correctly and does so. Otherwise, such markup is termed "unknown foreign markup". When unknown foreign markup is encountered as a child of atom:entry, atom:feed, or a Person construct, software MAY bypass the markup and any textual content and MUST NOT change its behavior as a result of the markup's presence. When unknown foreign markup is encountered in a Text Contruct or atom:content element, software SHOULD ignore the markup and process any text content of foreign elements as though the surrounding markup were not present. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 30] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 6.4 Extension Elements Atom allows foreign markup anywhere in an Atom document. Child elements of atom:entry, atom:feed, and Person constructs are considered Metadata Elements, and are described below. Child elements of Person constructs are considered to apply to the construct. The role of other foreign markup is undefined by this specification. 6.4.1 Simple Extension Elements A Simple Extension element MUST NOT have any attributes or child elements. The element MAY contain character data, or be empty. Simple Extension elements are not language-sensitive. The element can be interpreted as a simple property (or name/value pair) of the parent element that encloses it. The pair consisting of the namespace-URI of the element and the local name of the element can be interpreted as the name of the property. The character data content of the element can be interpreted as the value of the property. If the element is empty, then the property value can be interpreted as an empty string. 6.4.2 Structured Extension Elements The root element of a Structured Extension element MUST have at least one attribute or child element. It MAY have attributes, it MAY contain well-formed XML content (including character data), or it MAY be empty. Structured Extension elements are language-sensitive. The structure of a Structured Extension element, including the order of its child elements, could be significant. This specification does not provide an interpretation of a Structured Extension element. The syntax of the XML contained in the element, and an interpretation of how the element relates to its containing element is defined by the specification of the Atom extension. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 31] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 7. IANA Considerations An Atom Document, when serialized as XML 1.0, can be identified with the following media type: MIME media type name: application MIME subtype name: atom+xml Mandatory parameters: None. Optional parameters: "charset": This parameter has identical semantics to the charset parameter of the "application/xml" media type as specified in [RFC3023]. Encoding considerations: Identical to those of "application/xml" as described in [RFC3023], section 3.2. Security considerations: As defined in this specification. [[anchor59: update upon publication]] In addition, as this media type uses the "+xml" convention, it shares the same security considerations as described in [RFC3023], section 10. Interoperability considerations: There are no known interoperability issues. Published specification: This specification. [[anchor60: update upon publication]] Applications that use this media type: No known applications currently use this media type. Additional information: Magic number(s): As specified for "application/xml" in [RFC3023], section 3.2. File extension: .atom Fragment identifiers: As specified for "application/xml" in [RFC3023], section 5. Base URI: As specified in [RFC3023], section 6. Macintosh File Type code: TEXT Person and email address to contact for further information: Mark Nottingham Intended usage: COMMON Author/Change controller: This specification's author(s). [[anchor61: update upon publication]] 7.1 Registry of Link Relations This registry is maintained by IANA and initially contains five values: "alternate", "related", "self", "enclosure", and "via". New assignments are subject to IESG Approval, as outlined in [RFC2434]. Requests should be made by email to IANA, which will then forward the request to the IESG requesting approval. The request should contain Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 32] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 discussion of at least the following five topics: o A value for the "rel" attribute that conforms to the syntax rule given in Section 4.2.9.2 o Common name for link type. o Description of link type semantics. o Expected display characteristics. o Security considerations. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 33] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 8. Security Considerations 8.1 HTML and XHTML Content Text constructs and atom:content allow the delivery of HTML and XHTML to receiving software, which may process it. Many elements in these languages are considered 'unsafe' in that they open clients to one or more types of attack. Implementers of software which processes Atom should carefully consider their handling of every type of element when processing incoming (X)HTML in Atom documents. See the security sections of [RFC2854] and [W3C.REC-html401-19991224] for guidance. Atom Processors should pay particular attention to the security of the IMG, SCRIPT, EMBED, OBJECT, FRAME, FRAMESET, IFRAME, META, and LINK elements, but other elements may also have negative security properties. (X)HTML can either directly contain or indirectly reference executable content. 8.2 URIs Atom Processors handle URIs. See Section 7 of [RFC3986]. 8.3 IRIs Atom Processors handle IRIs. See Section 8 of [RFC3987]. 8.4 Encryption and Signing Atom documents can be encrypted and signed using [W3C.REC-xmlenc-core-20021210] and [W3C.REC-xmldsig-core-20020212], respectively, and are subject to the security considerations implied by their use. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 34] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 9. References 9.1 Normative References [Atom-autodiscovery] Pilgrim, M., "Atom Feed Autodiscovery", work-in-progress, August 2004. [RFC2045] Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies", RFC 2045, November 1996. [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC2234] Crocker, D., Ed. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF", RFC 2234, November 1997. [RFC2822] Resnick, P., "Internet Message Format", RFC 2822, April 2001. [RFC2854] Connolly, D. and L. Masinter, "The 'text/html' Media Type", RFC 2854, June 2000. [RFC3023] Murata, M., St. Laurent, S. and D. Kohn, "XML Media Types", RFC 3023, January 2001. [RFC3066] Alvestrand, H., "Tags for the Identification of Languages", BCP 47, RFC 3066, January 2001. [RFC3339] Klyne, G. and C. Newman, "Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps", RFC 3339, July 2002. [RFC3548] Josefsson, S., "The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings", RFC 3548, July 2003. [RFC3986] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R. and L. Masinter, "Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66, RFC 3986, January 2005. [RFC3987] Duerst, M. and M. Suignard, "Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)", RFC 3987, January 2005. [W3C.REC-html401-19991224] Raggett, D., Hors, A. and I. Jacobs, "HTML 4.01 Specification", W3C REC REC-html401-19991224, December 1999. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 35] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 [W3C.REC-xhtml-basic-20001219] Baker, M., Ishikawa, M., Matsui, S., Stark, P., Wugofski, T. and T. Yamakami, "XHTML Basic", W3C REC REC-xhtml-basic-20001219, December 2000. [W3C.REC-xml-20040204] Yergeau, F., Paoli, J., Sperberg-McQueen, C., Bray, T. and E. Maler, "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Third Edition)", W3C REC REC-xml-20040204, February 2004. [W3C.REC-xml-infoset-20040204] Cowan, J. and R. Tobin, "XML Information Set (Second Edition)", W3C REC REC-xml-infoset-20040204, February 2004. [W3C.REC-xml-names-19990114] Hollander, D., Bray, T. and A. Layman, "Namespaces in XML", W3C REC REC-xml-names-19990114, January 1999. [W3C.REC-xmlbase-20010627] Marsh, J., "XML Base", W3C REC REC-xmlbase-20010627, June 2001. [W3C.REC-xmldsig-core-20020212] Solo, D., Reagle, J. and D. Eastlake, "XML-Signature Syntax and Processing", W3C REC REC-xmldsig-core-20020212, February 2002. [W3C.REC-xmlenc-core-20021210] Reagle, J. and D. Eastlake, "XML Encryption Syntax and Processing", W3C REC REC-xmlenc-core-20021210, December 2002. 9.2 Informative References [ISO.8601.1988] International Organization for Standardization, "Data elements and interchange formats - Information interchange - Representation of dates and times", ISO Standard 8601, June 1988. [RELAX-NG] OASIS Technical Committee: RELAX NG, "RELAX NG Specification", December 2001. [RFC2434] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 2434, October 1998. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 36] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 [W3C.NOTE-datetime-19980827] Wolf, M. and C. Wicksteed, "Date and Time Formats", W3C NOTE NOTE-datetime-19980827, August 1998. [W3C.REC-xmlschema-2-20041028] Malhotra, A. and P. Biron, "XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition", W3C REC REC-xmlschema-2-20041028, October 2004. Authors' Addresses Mark Nottingham (editor) Email: mnot@pobox.com URI: http://www.mnot.net/ Robert Sayre (editor) Email: rfsayre@boswijck.com URI: http://boswijck.com Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 37] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 Appendix A. Contributors The following people contributed to preliminary drafts of this document: Tim Bray, Mark Pilgrim, and Sam Ruby. Norman Walsh provided the Relax NG schema. The content and concepts within are a product of the Atom community and the Atom Publishing Format and Protocol Working Group. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 38] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 Appendix B. Collected RELAX NG Compact Schema This appendix is informative. # -*- rnc -*- # RELAX NG Compact Syntax Grammar for the # Atom Format Specification Version 07 namespace atom = "http://purl.org/atom/ns#draft-ietf-atompub-format-07" namespace xhtml = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" namespace s = "http://www.ascc.net/xml/schematron" start = atomFeed | atomEntry # Common attributes atomCommonAttributes = attribute xml:base { atomUri }?, attribute xml:lang { atomLanguageTag }? # Text Constructs atomPlainTextConstruct = atomCommonAttributes, attribute type { "text" | "html" }?, text atomXHTMLTextConstruct = atomCommonAttributes, attribute type { "xhtml" }, xhtmlDiv atomTextConstruct = atomPlainTextConstruct | atomXHTMLTextConstruct # Person Construct atomPersonConstruct = atomCommonAttributes, (element atom:name { text } & element atom:uri { atomUri }? & element atom:email { atomEmailAddress }? & extensionElement*) # Date Construct atomDateConstruct = atomCommonAttributes, Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 39] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 xsd:dateTime # atom:feed atomFeed = [ s:rule [ context = "atom:feed" s:assert [ test = "atom:link[@rel='alternate']" "An atom:feed must have at least one link element " ~ "with a rel attribute of 'alternate'." ] ] s:rule [ context = "atom:feed" s:assert [ test = "atom:author or not(atom:entry[not(atom:author)])" "An atom:feed must have an atom:author unless all " ~ "of its atom:entry children have an atom:author." ] ] ] element atom:feed { atomCommonAttributes, (atomAuthor? & atomCategory* & atomContributor* & atomCopyright? & atomGenerator? & atomIcon? & atomId? & atomImage? & atomLink+ & atomSubtitle? & atomTitle & atomUpdated & extensionElement*), atomEntry* } # atom:entry atomEntry = [ s:rule [ context = "atom:entry" s:assert [ Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 40] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 test = "atom:link[@rel='alternate'] or atom:content" "An atom:entry must have at least one link element " ~ "with a rel attribute of 'alternate' or content." ] ] s:rule [ context = "atom:entry" s:assert [ test = "atom:author or " ~ "../atom:author or atom:source/atom:author" "An atom:entry must have an atom:author " ~ "if its feed does not." ] ] # N.B. This rule doesn't test # for content with a non-binary type. s:rule [ context = "atom:entry" s:assert [ test = "atom:summary or atom:content[not(@src)]" "An atom:entry must have an atom:summary " ~ "if the atom:content element is empty." ] ] ] element atom:entry { atomCommonAttributes, (atomAuthor? & atomCategory* & atomContent? & atomContributor* & atomCopyright? & atomId & atomLink* & atomPublished? & atomSource? & atomSummary? & atomTitle & atomUpdated & extensionElement*) } # atom:content atomInlineTextContent = element atom:content { atomCommonAttributes, Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 41] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 attribute type { "text" | "html" }?, (text)* } atomInlineXHTMLContent = element atom:content { atomCommonAttributes, attribute type { "xhtml" }, xhtmlDiv } atomInlineOtherContent = element atom:content { atomCommonAttributes, attribute type { atomMediaType }?, (text|anyElement)* } atomOutOfLineContent = element atom:content { atomCommonAttributes, attribute type { atomMediaType }?, attribute src { atomUri }, empty } atomContent = atomInlineTextContent | atomInlineXHTMLContent | atomInlineOtherContent | atomOutOfLineContent # atom:author atomAuthor = element atom:author { atomPersonConstruct } # atom:category atomCategory = element atom:category { atomCommonAttributes, attribute term { text }, attribute scheme { atomUri }?, attribute label { text }?, empty } # atom:contributor Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 42] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 atomContributor = element atom:contributor { atomPersonConstruct } # atom:copyright atomCopyright = element atom:copyright { atomTextConstruct } # atom:generator atomGenerator = element atom:generator { atomCommonAttributes, attribute uri { atomUri }?, attribute version { text }?, text } # atom:icon atomIcon = element atom:icon { atomCommonAttributes, (atomUri) } # atom:id atomId = element atom:id { atomCommonAttributes, (atomUri) } # atom:image atomImage = element atom:image { atomCommonAttributes, (atomUri) } # atom:link atomLink = element atom:link { atomCommonAttributes, attribute href { atomUri }, attribute rel { atomNCName | atomUri }?, attribute type { atomMediaType }?, attribute hreflang { atomLanguageTag }?, attribute title { text }?, attribute length { text }?, empty Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 43] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 } # atom:published atomPublished = element atom:published { atomDateConstruct } # atom:source atomSource = element atom:source { atomCommonAttributes, (atomAuthor? & atomCategory* & atomContributor* & atomCopyright? & atomGenerator? & atomIcon? & atomId? & atomImage? & atomLink+ & atomSubtitle? & atomTitle & atomUpdated & extensionElement*) } # atom:subtitle atomSubtitle = element atom:subtitle { atomTextConstruct } # atom:summary atomSummary = element atom:summary { atomTextConstruct } # atom:title atomTitle = element atom:title { atomTextConstruct } # atom:updated atomUpdated = element atom:updated { atomDateConstruct } # Low-level simple types atomNCName = xsd:string { minLength = "1" pattern = "[^:]*" } # Whatever a media type is, it contains at least one slash atomMediaType = xsd:string { pattern = ".+/.+" } Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 44] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 # As defined in RFC 3066 atomLanguageTag = xsd:string { pattern = "[A-Za-z]{1,8}(-[A-Za-z0-9]{1,8})*" } # Unconstrained; it's not entirely clear how IRI fit into # xsd:anyURI so let's not try to constrain it here atomUri = text # Whatever an email address is, it contains at least one @ atomEmailAddress = xsd:string { pattern = ".+@.+" } # Extensibility simpleExtensionElement = element * - atom:* { text } structuredExtensionElement = element * - atom:* { (attribute * { text }+, (text|anyElement)*) | (attribute * { text }*, (text?, anyElement+, (text|anyElement)*)) } extensionElement = simpleExtensionElement | structuredExtensionElement anyElement = element * - atom:* { (attribute * { text } | text | anyElement)* } # XHTML anyXHTML = element xhtml:* { (attribute * { text } | text | anyXHTML)* } xhtmlDiv = element xhtml:div { (attribute * { text } | text Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 45] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 | anyXHTML)* } # EOF Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 46] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 Appendix C. Change Log [[anchor72: This section should be removed before final publication.]] -07: Change atom:source-feed to atom:source. Add ABNF reference Many editorial tweaks Rework extensibility Adjust page breaks in txt version -06: Move Identity Construct into atom:id (only place it's used) atom:id values must be unique within a feed. restore atom:copyright definition mistakenly dropped during alphabetizing. Remove atom:head, add atom:source-feed, and "Extension Construct" text in an effort to accurately reflect WG consensus on data model and extensibility, acknowledging two opinions in favor of atom:head. Note @hreflang issue. Add comment on atom:entry/atom:summary requirements. Rework atom:id text. The dereferencing section didn't talk about dereferencing. Remove protocol reference. Alphabetize where appropriate (PaceOrderSpecAlphabetically). Add mI language (PaceExtendingAtom). Add atom:icon and atom:image (PaceImageAndIcon). Change atom:tagline to atom:subtitle Add inline XHTML language (PaceXHTMLNamespaceDiv). Change "TEXT" etc, to lowercase Change example id IRI to urn:uuid:... Add rel="self" (PaceFeedLink). Add Feed State text (PaceNoFeedState). Move to IRIs (PaceIRI). Add rel="via" (PaceLinkRelVia). Add rel="enclosure" (PaceEnclosuresAndPix). Remove info and host (PaceRemoveInfoAndHost) Clarify order of entries (PaceEntryOrder). Remove version attribute (PaceRemoveVersionAttr). Date format roundup (PaceDatesXSD). Remove Service construct and elements. fix atom:contributor cardinality typo Removed motivation/design principles note; if we haven't come up with them by now... Put conformance text into notational conventions. Removed instances of 'software'; too specific. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 47] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 Added refs to HTML and XHTML. Updated ref to Infoset. Various editorial tweaks. Fix RFC 3023 refs in IANA section Adjust head/link requirement fix @version typos -05: Add RNC from N. Walsh. Re-organize element definitions. Lift the prohibition on other types of DSig and encryption. Remove text on "indiscriminate use" of DSig and XMLEnc. -04: Update URI terms for 2396bis. Add Category construct (PaceCategoryRevised). Insert paranoid XHTML interpretation guidelines. Adjust atom:copyright, per chairs' instruction. Add atom:host as child element of atom:entry, per chairs' direction (PacePersonConstruct). Add link/content co-constraint (PaceContentOrLink). Remove atom:origin as a side effect of adding atom:head to atom:entry (PaceHeadInEntry). Add optional length attribute to atom:link (PaceLinkRelated). Add Link registry to Link Construct, IANA Considerations placeholder (PaceFieldingLinks). Change definition of atom:updated (PaceUpdatedDefinition). -03: Move definition of Link @rel to format spec, restrict acceptable values (PaceMoveLinkElement, PaceLinkAttrDefaults). Add Service Construct, head/post, head/introspection, entry/edit (PaceServiceElement). Add Text Construct, entry/content (PaceReformedContent3). Add entry/published (PaceDatePublished). Adjust definition of Identity Construct per chairs' direction to "fix it." Add Sayre to editors. -02: Removed entry/modified, entry/issued, entry/created; added entry/updated (PaceDateUpdated). Changed date construct from W3C date-time to RFC3339 (PaceDateUpdated). Feed links to HTML pages should be reflected back (PaceLinkReflection). Added Identity construct (PaceIdConstruct). Changed feed/id and entry/id to be Identity constructs (PaceIdConstruct). Changed entry/origin's content so that it's the same as the feed's id, rather than its link/@rel="alternate" (PaceIdConstruct). Added "Securing Atom Documents" (PaceDigitalSignatures). -01: Constrained omission of "Information Item" to just elements and attributes. Nottingham & Sayre Expires October 2, 2005 [Page 48] Internet-Draft Atom Format March 2005 Clarified xml:lang inheritence. Removed entry- and feed-specific langauge about xml:lang (covered by general discussion of xml:lang) Changed xml:lang to reference XML for normative requirements. Changed "... MUST be a string" to "... is unstructued text." Remomved langauge about DOCTYPEs, PIs, Comments, Entities. Changed atom:url to atom:uri, @url to @uri Introduced atom:head Introduced "Atom Feed Document" and "Atom Entry Document". Removed requirement for all elements and attributes to be namespace-qualified; now children of selective elements Added extensibility to Person constructs. Removed requirement for media types to be registered (non-registered media types are legal) Added atom:origin (PaceEntryOrigin) Added requirement for entry/id to be present and a URI (PaceEntryIdRequired). Clarified approach to Comments, PIs and well-formedness, as per RFC3470. Referenced escaping algorithm in XML. Assorted editorial nits and cleanup, refactoring -00: Initial IETF Internet-Draft submission. Added optional version attribute to entry (PaceEntryElementNeedsVersionAttribute). Added hreflang attribute (PaceHrefLang). Clarified inheritence of copyright element (PaceItemCopyright). Added xml:lang to entries (PaceItemLang). Tweaked Infoset-related language (PaceNoInfoSet). Clarified lack of structure in version attribute (PaceVersionAsText). Changed approach to XML Base (PaceXmlBaseEverywhere). Added XML Base processing to atom:id (PaceXmlBaseId). Various editorial cleanup and adjustments for IETF publication. 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