Segregate into multiple Atom pages and add navigational directives and support RFC 5005

[sjehuda]

This is a feature request to solve a problem

Many people host their publications as RSS (i.e. Atom), and include all of their posts, which is a good thing!

https://envs.net/~lucidiot/rsrsss/feed.xml

https://idiomdrottning.org/blog @snan

https://landchad.net/index.xml

This would lead to documents of too large sizes.

https://refine.dev/blog/atom.xml (50MB) @refinedev

Describe the solution

Allow to determine maximum number of entries per Atom page; and

Add navigational directives by utilizing element "atom:link".

• Element: "atom:link
• Attribute: "rel"
• Value: "next" or "prev"

Describe alternatives

I intend to implement that with Rivista Voyager.

This is currently being tested with Atom Syndicated Fornat documents of single entries.

https://journal.woodpeckersnest.eu/posts/1270-01-01-havamal-ii/

https://journal.woodpeckersnest.eu/posts/2024-08-01-establish-your-i2p-site-in-five-minutes/

Notice the links "previous" and "proceed".

This site is entirely made of The Atom Syndication Format. There is no HTML, only XML.

Additional context

I have recently added navigational directives to an RSS Greasemonkey extension.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/465932-newspaper-syndication-feed-reader

This is the article of ACE (The Atom Centric Elevation) specification.

https://git.xmpp-it.net/sch/Rivista/src/branch/main/rivista/data/source/help/ace.rst

I have attached the recent version of that document to this post.

ace.rst

Post script

The added features of The Atom Centric Elevation is possible only with The Atom Syndication Format.

It be possible for RSS, if the XML namespace of The Atom Syndication Format is integrated into other XML documents, and is mixed with element "atom:link".

Atom

  <link href="/posts/2020-06-30-get-a-website-now-do-not-be-a-web-peasant" rel="prev" title="Get a Website Now! Do not be a Web Peasant!" type="application/atom+xml"/>
  <link href="/posts/2026-01-01-gnutella2-and-internet-publications" rel="next" title="Gnutella2 and internet publications" type="application/atom+xml"/>

Not Atom (e.g. RDF, RSS, SMF, et cetera)

  <atom:link href="/posts/2020-06-30-get-a-website-now-do-not-be-a-web-peasant" rel="prev" title="Get a Website Now! Do not be a Web Peasant!" type="application/rdf+xml"/>
  <atom:link href="/posts/2026-01-01-gnutella2-and-internet-publications" rel="next" title="Gnutella2 and internet publications" type="application/rdf+xml"/>

I am sure that you knew that already.

[snan]

Not to take away from the general point but my feeds including the aforementioned example are limited to the most recent 20 entries. I have 1358 entries total.

[sjehuda]

Your Atom and XHTML site is beautiful and it inspired me to create a publication system which is only based on XML.

[sjehuda]

Interestingly, this technique is already specified in RFC 5005: Paging and Archiving

I have added "RFC 5005" to the title.