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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Piyush Shah's Blog : Feed</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/shahpiyush/archive/tags/Feed/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Feed</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Convert any feed to ATOM</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/shahpiyush/archive/2007/05/11/2542803.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 11:34:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:2542803</guid><dc:creator>shahpiyush</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/shahpiyush/comments/2542803.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/shahpiyush/commentrss.aspx?PostID=2542803</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;Judging by ATOM's rising popularity, see &lt;A class="" href="http://intertwingly.net/moin-1.2.1/wiki/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Rss20AndAtom10Compared" target=_blank mce_href="http://intertwingly.net/moin-1.2.1/wiki/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Rss20AndAtom10Compared"&gt;Atom compared to RSS&lt;/A&gt;, and its public endorsement by Google. Atom may be the future of Feed Syndication.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Here is a quick way, courtesy of Google, to convert any Feed type to Atom. Google provides a nice REST interface to convert your feed into ATOM. Just do a Get to &lt;STRONG&gt;http://www.google.com/reader/atom/feed/{url-to-convert}&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;e.g. To Convert MSDN RSS 2.0&amp;nbsp;feed (&lt;A class="" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/rss.xml" target=_blank mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/rss.xml"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/rss.xml&lt;/A&gt;) do a GET on&amp;nbsp;&lt;A class="" href="http://www.google.com/reader/atom/feed/http://msdn.microsoft.com/rss.xml" target=_blank mce_href="http://www.google.com/reader/atom/feed/http://msdn.microsoft.com/rss.xml"&gt;http://www.google.com/reader/atom/feed/http://msdn.microsoft.com/rss.xml&lt;/A&gt;. If you&amp;nbsp;do&amp;nbsp;View Source, you will see that it's converted to ATOM.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2542803" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/shahpiyush/archive/tags/RSS/default.aspx">RSS</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/shahpiyush/archive/tags/ATOM/default.aspx">ATOM</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/shahpiyush/archive/tags/Feed/default.aspx">Feed</category></item></channel></rss>