# csl, atom idea

**URL:** <https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/csl-atom-idea/142>\
**Category:** CSL Development\
**Created:** [July 15, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/csl-atom-idea/142 "2006-07-15T19:14:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Bruce_D_Arcus1)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/csl-atom-idea/142/1 "2006-07-15T19:14:45Z")

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Been kicking around an idea with M. David Peterson to use Atom as a  
wrapper for CSL, and a way to easily distribute styles to users  
(probably a distributed repository model). In that case, the atom:entry  
would contain all the metadata, and the styling info itself would be  
embedded in the atom:content file. See here for a similar example:

\<[http://dev.extensibleforge.net/browser/trunk/X5.AspNet/Resources/](http://dev.extensibleforge.net/browser/trunk/X5.AspNet/Resources/)  
module/instance.atom\>

Any thoughts?

Bruce

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**Author:** ![Matthias\_Steffens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@Matthias\_Steffens](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Matthias_Steffens)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/csl-atom-idea/142/2 "2006-07-15T21:24:45Z")

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Sounds like a great thing to me! I’d love to subscribe to an online CSL  
repository and automatically get notified in my newsreader about any  
recent additions/updates. And I could simply click the “download  
attached file” button in my newsreader to fetch any CSL file that  
interests me, right?

Matthias

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**Author:** ![Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Bruce_D_Arcus1)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/csl-atom-idea/142/3 "2006-07-15T21:43:11Z")

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Right, though it might be even simpler than that: the Atom entry can  
contain the CSL style whole 😉

Bruce

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**Author:** ![Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Bruce_D_Arcus1)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2006, 1:41pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/csl-atom-idea/142/4 "2006-07-16T13:41:38Z")

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A simple example:

[http://www.users.muohio.edu/darcusb/feeds/csl-atom.xml](http://www.users.muohio.edu/darcusb/feeds/csl-atom.xml)

Bruce