Defined Atom Categories

A number of specifications and services make use of the extensibility provided in Atom in using categories to identify the purpose of particular resources. The following is a an Atom categories document that includes all of the terms used in these specifications.

Note the use of the example.org top-level DNS name reserved by RFC 2606 to ensure these specifications are vendor neutral.

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<app:categories xmlns:app="http://purl.org/atom/app#"  
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" 
  fixed="yes" scheme="http://example.org/categories/openservices/v0.6">

  <category term="users" />
  <category term="user" />
  <category term="change-events" />
  <category term="change-event" />
  <category term="indexing-rules" />
  <category term="indexing-rule" />

  <category term="email" />
  <category term="homepage" />

</categories>