RSS or Atom

[Jay Goodman Tamboli]

Are there any reasons I should prefer RSS or Atom over the other as my input feeds?

Thanks.

/jgt
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[Walter Tyree]

I don't know if there is official policy on this. In my experience it really comes down to the mechanism used to convert the data into feeds. Sometimes the atom parser on a website is superior to the rss parser and sometimes the rss parser is better.