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Re: [opml-dev] OPML: New Version

As usual, if you want to create a format that isn't compatible with OPML, you
must call it something other than OPML. Thanks and good luck. Dave

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Fri Apr 11, 2003 3:15 am

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I just read through the mailing list and there seems to be a number of people with concerns about the practicality of using attributes vs. the flexibility in...	rgrieselhuber	Apr 11, 2003 3:00 am
As usual, if you want to create a format that isn't compatible with OPML, you must call it something other than OPML. Thanks and good luck. Dave [Non-text...	Dave Winer dwiner	Apr 11, 2003 3:17 am
... That includes every use of OPML out there. Everyone seems to enjoy making up their own stuff. May as well use OCS for much of what OPML is used for in the...	Iain Truskett hiskoscheiness	Apr 11, 2003 10:03 am
... This isn't the case -- there's a specific way to extend OPML, and all of the extensions I am familiar with follow it. To "make up your own stuff" in OPML,...	Rogers Cadenhead rcade	Apr 11, 2003 1:36 pm
... Why are you so uninterested in extending OPML? You've defined somethign which is useful and popular, and then stopped it from growing. Very strange. jeff...	Jeff Mitchell coogfoo	Apr 11, 2003 1:36 pm
OPML's strength, from my limited experience is it's simplicity. The basic format is simple and easy to use, and easy to keep consistent. It is also a...	Austin Marshall pseudogodofp...	Apr 11, 2003 4:23 pm
... I'm not going to start (another) flameware; Dave has good points; leaving it be is good in a lot of cases. Dave -- you can ignore this; being a lament...	Jeff Mitchell coogfoo	Apr 11, 2003 7:12 pm
... It could be more clear, but it does in these two lines: "type is a string, it says how the other attributes of the <outline> are interpreted. "There are no...	Rogers Cadenhead rcade	Apr 11, 2003 7:42 pm
I don't want to get into a drawn out debate on this, but if you have some examples, please share. The concern is sources that say they're OPML that don't...	Dave Winer dwiner	Apr 11, 2003 10:08 am
Jeff, there are no limits to its growth, that I've seen; and that's the way it works -- once something gets popular, if you change it you break it. I don't...	Dave Winer dwiner	Apr 11, 2003 2:31 pm
Well again since the basic issue for most people is flexibility vs. a predictable format, and we can add any elements that we want to the outline element, then...	rgrieselhuber	Apr 11, 2003 4:22 pm

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