Atom 1.0 feed

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Atom 1.0 feed

Role

Atom 1.0 (RFC 4287) syndication feed published at /atom.xml on every content-bearing site (blog.oriz.in, me.oriz.in public sections, per-extension changelog feeds). Sits alongside the RSS 2.0 feed and the JSON Feed — see decisions/architecture/feeds-rss-atom-json.md.

Some readers (notably older newsreaders + a few search engines' crawl pipelines) prefer Atom over RSS; some don't auto-discover unless the <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml"> tag is present. Publishing all three formats means we never lose a subscriber to a format gap.

Free tier

• Open spec, no backend
• Generated at build time inside each Astro site, dropped into dist/atom.xml
• Served by Cloudflare Pages as a static asset — no runtime cost

Card / subscription required?

NO. Pure build-time output.

How it's used

@chirag127/oriz-kit ships:

• A <FeedDiscovery /> component that injects all three <link> tags (RSS 2.0, Atom 1.0, JSON Feed) into the document head.
• A generateAtomFeed(posts) helper that consumes the same Post[] shape the RSS generator does, emits valid Atom 1.0 XML.

// astro.config.mjs / build hook
import { generateAtomFeed } from "@chirag127/oriz-kit/feeds";
const xml = generateAtomFeed({
  site: "https://blog.oriz.in",
  title: "Oriz Blog",
  posts,
});
await fs.writeFile("dist/atom.xml", xml);

Alternatives

• RSS 2.0 only — ignored by some Atom-only readers
• JSON Feed only — too new, smaller reader install base
• Skip Atom — losses some long-tail subscribers + search-pipeline hints; not worth the saved bytes

Swap cost

Low — a build-step output. Removing or swapping is a generator-helper change, no runtime impact.

Why this is our pick

Three-format publishing is the safest reach. Atom's strict spec (timestamps, IDs, namespaces) has historically been more robust than loose RSS, and several reader / crawler tools default to Atom when both are advertised. Cost to publish: one build-step helper.

Cross-refs

• Multi-format feeds decision
• JSON Feed sibling
• SEO services index
• Cross-post engine — oriz-omnipost reads RSS as the source-of-truth feed; Atom + JSON ride alongside for human readers
• — `` component lives here