XMPP (RFC 6120), PubSub (XEP-0060) and Atom Over XMPP (RFC 4287)

[sjehuda]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Retrieve Atom feeds that are stored on XMPP servers.

Describe the solution you would like
Adding support to specification Atom Over XMPP.

Describe alternatives you have considered
Rivista XJP (XMPP -> HTTP) gateway for news readers.

Additional context
My name is Schimon and I am a champion of Syndication and XMPP.

For those of you who are not famiiliar, XMPP (previously Jabber) is a messaging system with open standards. XMPP is extensible via XEP.

I will discuss about XEP-0060: Publish-Subscribe.

Almost a couple of decades ago, a discussion arose about incorporating Atom (RFC 4287) with XMPP PubSub, which is really easy because both are XML data.

One of the major benefits of utilizing PubSub is native Push Notifications (yes, that technique was much before HTML5) which do not require HTTP pulling.

That would be a great feature to have NewsBlur to utilize XMPP PubSub natively!

See a proof of concept I have made to parse PubSub nodes as Atom Syndication Format.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/66/materials/slides-66-atompub-1.pdf
https://codeberg.org/poezio/slixmpp/issues/3526

The proof of concept script has been developed into an HTTP gateway.
I encourage you to view the video demonstration (length 7:44).

• https://video.xmpp-it.net/w/vNqcMooy3pqRAZ8Yb8grr1
• https://git.xmpp-it.net/sch/Rivista

Cheers,
Schimon