HAtom
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hAtom is a draft Microformat
Microformat
A microformat is a web-based approach to semantic markup which seeks to re-use existing HTML/XHTML tags to convey metadata and other attributes in web pages and other contexts that support HTML, such as RSS...

 for marking up (X)HTML
HTML
HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....

, using classes and rel attributes
Rel attribute
A link relation is a descriptive attribute attached to a hyperlink in order to define the type of the link, or the relationship between the source and destination resources. The attribute can be used by automated systems, or can be presented to a user in a different way.In HTML these are designated...

, content on web pages
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...

 that contain blog entries or similar chronological content. These can then be parsed as feeds in Atom
Atom (standard)
The name Atom applies to a pair of related standards. The Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds, while the Atom Publishing Protocol is a simple HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating web resources.Web feeds allow software programs to check for updates published on a...

, a web syndication standard.

hAtom is presently available as version 0.1, released 28 February 2006, and is used widely throughout the Web.

Web Slices

hAtom is also used as the basis for individually subscribable parts of web pages, called Web Slice
Web Slice
Web Slice is a web feed technology introduced in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 that allows certain portions of a web page to be subscribed to. Internet Explorer allows users to preview the subscribed Web Slices in fly-out preview window...

s, which are understood by Internet Explorer 8 and can be understood by Firefox, using third-party add-ons.

The annotations indicated via the hAtom tags added to mark-up determine the portions of content obtained via the Web Slice filter.

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