Atom Syndication Format (ATOM)
Atom was created as an alternative to RSS (Really Simple
Syndication) since RSS is frozen. Atom provides a feed that
a news or other reader can pull recent items from.
Example
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/css/services.xsl"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
xmlns:lm="http://lifemapper.org">
<id>http://lifemapper.org/services/lm2/layers/231/atom?</id>
<title>Lifemapper layer 231</title>
<link href="http://lifemapper.org/services/lm2/layers/231/atom?" rel="self" />
<updated>2010-04-28T11:22:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Lifemapper</name>
<email>lifemapper@ku.edu</email>
</author>
<entry>
<id>http://lifemapper.org/services/lm2/layers/231/atom?</id>
<link rel="self"
href="http://lifemapper.org/services/lm2/layers/231/atom?" />
<link rel="alternate"
href="http://lifemapper.org/services/lm2/layers/231?" />
<link rel="alternate"
href="http://lifemapper.org/services/lm2/layers/231/atom?" />
<link rel="alternate"
href="http://lifemapper.org/services/lm2/layers/231/json?" />
<link rel="alternate"
href="http://lifemapper.org/services/lm2/layers/231/kml?" />
<link rel="alternate"
href="http://lifemapper.org/services/lm2/layers/231/thumbnail?" />
<link rel="alternate"
href="http://lifemapper.org/services/lm2/layers/231/wcs?" />
<link rel="alternate"
href="http://lifemapper.org/services/lm2/layers/231/wms?" />
<link rel="alternate"
href="http://lifemapper.org/services/lm2/layers/231/xml?" />
<title>Lifemapper layer 231</title>
<updated>2010-04-28T11:22:34Z</updated>
<summary>Lifemapper layer 231</summary>
<content type="text/xml">
<lm:bbox>
(-180.0, -90.0, 180.0, 90.0)
</lm:bbox>
<lm:description>
lowest temperature in the coolest month
</lm:description>
<lm:envLayerType>
lo_tmp_cool_mo
</lm:envLayerType>
<lm:guid>
http://lifemapper.org/ogc?sdlsvc=CRU_CL_1.0&sdllyr=curr_lo_tmp_cool_mo
</lm:guid>
<lm:keywords>
</lm:keywords>
<lm:maxVal>
25.2000007629
</lm:maxVal>
<lm:metadataUrl>
http://lifemapper.org/services/lm2/layers/231
</lm:metadataUrl>
<lm:minVal>
-53.0999984741
</lm:minVal>
<lm:modTime>
2008-08-20 17:36:41
</lm:modTime>
<lm:name>
curr_lo_tmp_cool_mo
</lm:name>
<lm:nodataVal>
-9999.0
</lm:nodataVal>
<lm:serviceType>
layers
</lm:serviceType>
<lm:srss>
</lm:srss>
<lm:title>
Lowest Temperature Coolest Month
</lm:title>
<lm:units />
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
Explanation
This example shows a projection in ATOM format. Atom is an
extension of XML. Each entry in an ATOM feed is contained in an
"entry" tag. Each entry, as well as the feed itself,
has a title, link, id, and updated attribute that is part of the
ATOM standard. This meta data is used by a reader to determine
what to display and provide a permanent link to data.