hAtom Microformat

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

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

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

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

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