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I’m not a developer or publisher, but i am interested in the technicalities.

I get that ATOM is better in terms of being more consistent and the way it handles full content.

Is it true that RSS is simpler, and of you’re not publishing full html articles and other rich content, you don’t need the extra complexity?

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RSS is no simpler. And in fact when you have to take account the ambiguity of different clients interpreting the sloppy specification differently it just gets more complex.

Even the trivial case of trying to include "&" in a title is ambiguous and different clients will handle it differently.

That’s helpful, thanks for replying

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