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== Why does hAtom use class name namespaces ==
You can read through the archives for the reasoning in depth, but in summary: since we were reusing the semantics of the IETF Atom standard, we very much wanted to reuse the vocabulary as well to minimize confusion and mean precisely the same semantics as defined in the Atom RFC 4287, and thus a few of the hAtom properties appear to be prefixed (entry-title, entry-content, entry-summary) in order to literally reuse those terms from the RFC (title, content, summary).

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hAtom FAQ

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Q&A

Is hAtom intended to replace RSS or Atom

No, hAtom is not intended to replace RSS or Atom. While most weblogs and other websites do provide their latest articles in a structured fashion (via RSS and/or Atom feeds), most of them do not provide their older articles in a structured way. This is one of the problems that hAtom can solve.

Is there a way to hide to the entry author information

My client does not want to display their name after every post, but would like this to be valid. Can I hide the author info in an abbr tag or something?

(something about hAtom 0.2 here?)

Why does hAtom use class name namespaces

You can read through the archives for the reasoning in depth, but in summary: since we were reusing the semantics of the IETF Atom standard, we very much wanted to reuse the vocabulary as well to minimize confusion and mean precisely the same semantics as defined in the Atom RFC 4287, and thus a few of the hAtom properties appear to be prefixed (entry-title, entry-content, entry-summary) in order to literally reuse those terms from the RFC (title, content, summary).

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