hAtom is a draft Microformat for marking up

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, using classes and ''rel'' attributes, content on web pages that contain blog entries or similar chronological content. These can then be parsed as feeds in Atom, a web syndication standard. hAtom is available as version 0.1, released 28 February 2006, and is used widely throughout the Web.

Web Slices

hAtom is also used as the basis for individually subscribable parts of web pages, called

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s, which are understood by

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and can be understood by Firefox, using third-party add-ons. The annotations indicated via the hAtom tags added to mark-up determine the portions of content obtained via the Web Slice filter.

References

External links

hAtom at the Microformats Wiki
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Web Slices

See also

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