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Can Atom feed contain media:content tag?

I have atom feed from some source in my app. It is sending me media:content tag for image information. I did not find anywhere this tag is supported Atom feed as per standards. This is for rss only.

Please let me know if atom feed can have media:content tag as per standards or not.

Thanks

Solution

  • An atom feed can include a content element in the http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom namespace.

    The namespace can be assigned to the media: prefix, although it is usually assigned to the atom: prefix.

    So it is possible that the document is standards compliant and pure Atom, but impossible to tell without knowing what namespace media: represents in your example.

    It is also possible for other XML types to be included.