10. The method of claim 8 wherein the content feeds have content elements having characteristics, the method further having the steps of, at the CMS, receiving, from the user, user desired characteristics for the content elements, and, at the CMS, transforming, the characteristics of the content elements to the user desired characteristics using XPath functions prior to delivering the content feeds to the user.
8. A method for providing in a platform-independent system for providing at least one content feed from at least one content application to a user via a standard feed reader supporting the XML language (“XML”) and the Atom format, the method comprising the steps of: a. receiving, at a content management system (“CMS”), from the feed reader, a URL from the feed reader b. receiving, at a linkbase, the URL, from the CMS; c. determining whether the URL comprises a query; d. if so, a. receiving, at an XQuery parameter provider, the URL and converting URL parameters in the URL and passing the corresponding XQuery parameters to the linkbase, and, from the linkbase, delivering an XQuery document associated with the URL to the CMS, the CMS passing the XQuery document to the content repository to retrieve the requested content; b. from the content respository, delivering to the CMS, an XML document having the requested content associated with the received URL; and c. from the CMS, delivering to the feed reader, the XML document in Atom format; and e. if not, from the CMS, delivering to the feed reader, an XML document associated with the received URL.