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For starters, the following stereotypical Newest Nodes stream... 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<NEWESTNODES>
<INFO
  site="http://perlmonks.org/"
  sitename="Perl Monks"
  foruser="Anonymous Monk"
  foruser_id="961"
  min_poll_seconds="30"
  style="default"
  gentimeGMT="2004-09-22 17:22:02"
  req_from="Tue Sep 21 13:22:02 2004"
  got_from="Tue Sep 21 13:22:02 2004"
  lastchecked="20040921132202">
    Rendered by the Newest Nodes XML Generator
</INFO>

<NODE
  nodetype="perlquestion"
  author_user="378491"
  createtime="20040922123043"
  node_id="392963">
    CGI::Session Handling
</NODE>

<AUTHOR
  node_id="961">
    Anonymous Monk
</AUTHOR>

</NEWESTNODES>

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...could be done in RSS as: 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:perlmonks="http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=3930
+35#">
<channel>

    <!-- required data: -->
    <title>Newest Nodes</title>
    <link>http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=3628</link>

    <!-- optional data: -->
    <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs> <!-- RSS 2.0 sp
+ec -->
    <generator>PerlMonks Newest Nodes RSS generator</generator>
    <lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Sep 04 16:12:21 GMT</lastBuildDate>

    <!-- non-standard data: -->
    <perlmonks:foruser>Anonymous Monk</perlmonks:foruser>
    <perlmonks:foruser_id>961</perlmonks:foruser_id>
    <perlmonks:min_poll_seconds>30</perlmonks:min_poll_seconds>
    <perlmonks:req_from>20040921132202</perlmonks:req_from>
    <perlmonks:got_from>20040921132202</perlmonks:got_from>
    <perlmonks:lastchecked>20040921132202</perlmonks:lastchecked>

<!-- here all the NODEs: -->

<item    perlmonks:itemtype="node">
    <title>CGI::Session Handling</title>
    <link>http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=392963</link>
    <description>My site is using CGI::Session to handle a mem...</des
+cription>

    <perlmonks:node_id>392963</perlmonks:node_id>
    <perlmonks:createtime>20040922123043</perlmonks:createtime>
    <perlmonks:nodetype>perlquestion</perlmonks:nodetype>
    <perlmonks:author_user>378491</perlmonks:author_user>
</item>

<!-- here all the AUTHORs: -->

<item    perlmonks:itemtype="author">
    <title>Anonymous Monk</title>
    <link>http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=961</link>
    <perlmonks:node_id>961</perlmonks:node_id>
</item>

</channel>
</rss>

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Yeah, it's a little more verbose, but it's just syntax. Elements in place of attributes, mostly.

Update:

Here's a sample in Atom. I think it's valid, but the format spec hasn't quite been nailed down yet.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<feed    version="draft-ietf-atompub-format-02: do not deploy"
    xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#draft-ietf-atompub-format-02"
>

    <head>
        <title>Newest Nodes</title>
        <link
            rel="alternate"
            type="text/html"
            href="http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=3628"
        />
        <modified>2003-12-13T18:30:02Z</modified>
        <!-- datetimes must conform to RFC-3339 -->
        <generator>PerlMonks Newest Nodes Atom generator</generator>

        <!-- non-standard data: -->
        <perlmonks:foruser>Anonymous Monk</perlmonks:foruser>
        <perlmonks:foruser_id>961</perlmonks:foruser_id>
        <perlmonks:min_poll_seconds>30</perlmonks:min_poll_seconds>
        <perlmonks:req_from>20040921132202</perlmonks:req_from>
        <perlmonks:got_from>20040921132202</perlmonks:got_from>
        <perlmonks:lastchecked>20040921132202</perlmonks:lastchecked>

    </head>

    <entry>
        <title>CGI::Session Handling</title>
        <link
            rel="alternate"
            type="text/html"
            href="http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=392963"
        />

        <!-- replaces createtime: -->
        <created>2003-12-13T08:29:29Z</created>

        <!-- see http://taguri.org/draft-kindberg-tag-uri-04.txt -->
        <id>tag:perlmonks.org,2003:392963</id>

        <!-- replaces authoruser attribute, and all the AUTHOR entries
+: -->
        <author>
            <name>Anonymous Monk</name>
            <uri>http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=961</uri>
            <id>tag:perlmonks.org,2003:961</id> <!-- not (yet) standar
+d? -->
        </author>
    </entry>

</feed>

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In this Atom sample, I've gone a bit further toward being natural, whereas with the RSS I was kinda shoe-horning the existing XML structure into RSS format.

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