Editing RSS (section)

== RSS compared with Atom ==
Both RSS and [[Atom (web standard)|Atom]] are widely supported and are compatible with all major consumer feed readers. RSS gained wider use because of early feed reader support. Technically, Atom has several advantages: less restrictive licensing, [[IANA]]-registered [[MIME type]], XML namespace, [[URI]] support, [[RELAX NG]] support.<ref>{{cite book |author=Leslie Sikos |url=http://www.masteringhtml5css3.com |title=Web standards – Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML |publisher=[[Apress]] |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-4302-4041-9 |access-date=June 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402152305/http://www.masteringhtml5css3.com/ |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The following table shows RSS elements alongside Atom elements where they are equivalent.

Note: the [[asterisk]] character (*) indicates that an element must be provided (Atom elements "author" and "link" are only required under certain conditions).

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!scope="col" |RSS 2.0
!scope="col" |Atom 1.0
|-
|<code>author</code>
|<code>author</code>*
|-
|<code>category</code>
|<code>category</code>
|-
|<code>channel</code>
|<code>feed</code>
|-
|<code>copyright</code>
|<code>rights</code>
|-
|—
|<code>subtitle</code>
|-
|<code>description</code>*
|<code>summary</code> or <code>content</code>
|-
|<code>generator</code>
|<code>generator</code>
|-
|<code>guid</code>
|<code>id</code>*
|-
|<code>image</code>
|<code>logo</code>
|-
|<code>item</code>
|<code>entry</code>
|-
|<code>lastBuildDate</code> (in <code>channel</code>)
|<code>updated</code>*
|-
|<code>link</code>*
|<code>link</code>*
|-
|<code>managingEditor</code>
|<code>author</code> or <code>contributor</code>
|-
|<code>pubDate</code>
|<code>published</code> (subelement of <code>entry</code>)
|-
|<code>title</code>*
|<code>title</code>*
|-
|<code>[[time to live|ttl]]</code>
|—
|}