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Atom feeds uses typed IRI links to represent information / metadata that is of interest to the consumers (software, in the main) of feeds. For instance, the edit link relation attached to an atom:entry element points to the IRI to use to update/edit it.

The Atom standard encourages that such typed links to be registered with IANA if they have wider applicability, and the LinkRelation data type encodes the currently registered link types (derived from: http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations.html on 2007-10-28]