Good resource for the ATOM and RSS specification?

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I've been trying to find the "official" documentation for ATOM and RSS so I can program against it. The problem I'm running into is that there are a lot of places that includes parts but never the whole specification.

Does anyone know of a good reference for both of these syndication formats thats reliable and contains the whole specification?

UPDATE: I did find this one for ATOM. Not sure if this is official but it looks pretty promising. I'm going to read some more on it.

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Dave Winer On BEST ANSWER

The official RSS 2.0 spec is here:

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html

I am the author of the spec.

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mahemoff On

The official Atom spec is here:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4287

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zizzler On

The latest official version of the RSS spec is here: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification

The current version is 2.0.11 published on March 30, 2009. The above link will always point to the latest version, and there are links to archived versions on that page.

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Muhammad Rehan Saeed On

See https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4287 for the official Atom Syndication Format specifications. Also, here are some more links I found useful: