
                 Atom Sandler 0.5 - Release Notes
                        

INTRODUCTION

    Atom Sandler is a Java API for creating and consuming Atom feeds. Atom is an XML-based file format
    intended to allow lists of information, known as "feeds", to be synchronised between publishers
    and consumers.

    For more information on Atom please visit the following sites:

    http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/FrontPage
    http://www.mnot.net/drafts/draft-nottingham-atom-format-02.html
    http://bitworking.org/projects/atom/draft-gregorio-09.html
    http://www.shellen.com/sandbox/atom-info-proposal.html




CHANGES IN THIS RELEASE

   o Basic implementation of Feed URL discovery from HTML <link/> tags
   o Auhor and Contributor types dropped in favor of a more generic Person type
   o New Examples: DownloadFeed.java and GenerateAtom03.java
   o New methods added to the SyndicationFactory to allow Feed and Entry instances to be created from strings
   o New Helper methods added to the SyndicationFactory for quickly creating Atom elements (Thanks Brian McCallister)


KNOW ISSUES

   o None at this time

DISTRIBUTION CHANGES

    o None at this time


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Find below the change history for older releases.

0.4 (December 28th, 2003)

   o Full support for the Atom Syndication Format 0.3 (http://www.mnot.net/drafts/draft-nottingham-atom-format-01.html)
   o Support for the <info/> element
   o Fixed a problem with reading <copyright/> elements from Feeds.
   o Added support for the version attribute on the <generator/> element
   o Added full support for <link/> tags
   o <summary/>, <title/>, <tagline/> and <copyright/> are now properly processed as Content constructs
   o Date handling no longer uses ISO 8601 but properly uses UTC
   o Misc. bug fixes


0.3 (INTERNAL)


0.2 (September 11th, 2003)

    o Fixed a problem reading <content/> blocks, suffice to say sometimes I am a moron.
    o Loads of Javadoc Updates
    o Added preliminary helper code for AtomAPI search and introspection structures
    o Added preliminary helper for facilitating an AtomAPI authorization
    o Misc refactoring

0.1 (September 9th, 2003)

    o Initial release
