# hAtom Microformat

### Roger Costello

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# Purpose of hAtom

- "hAtom isn't really intended for syndication at all: it's designed to describe the microcontent on webpages, such as blog posts. We used Atom because it provides a well-defined nomenclature for describing such elements." [David Janes]

# hfeed

- hfeed is the root class value. It is comprised of one or more hentry class values, e.g.,

1. <div class="hfeed">
2. <div class="hentry">...</div>
3. <div class="hentry">...</div>
4. <div class="hentry">...</div>
5. </div>

# hentry

- The mandatory properties of hentry are:
  - entry-title
  - updated
  - published
  - author

1. <div class="hentry">
2. <h1 class="entry-title">It takes years of training to think simply</h1>
3. <abbr class="updated published" title="20070413T13:07:00">April 13, 2007</abbr>
4. <a class="author"
5. href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead">Alfred North Whithead</a>
6. </div>

# Optional Properties

- The optional properties of hentry are:
  - entry-summary
  - entry-content
  - bookmark

1. <div class="hentry">
2. <h1 class="entry-title entry-summary">It takes years of training to think simply</h1>
3. <abbr class="updated published" title="20070413T13:07:00">April 13, 2007</abbr>
4. <a class="author bookmark" rel="tag"
5. href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead">Alfred North Whithead</a>
6. <div class="entry-content">>
7. <p>The ultimate ideas of mathematics are very simple, almost childishly so.
8. <p>We are not used to thinking about such simple abstract things, and a long training
9. is necessary to secure even a partial immunity from error
10. as soon as we diverge from the beaten path of thought.</p>
11. <a rel="tag"
12. href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics">Alfred North Whithead</a>
13. </div>
14. </div>

# hAtom Profile

- The hAtom profile is: http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom#XMDP_Profile

# Example

View SimpleThinking.html

# Homepage

- Homepage