>Another area that needs attention is to sort out the common uses of
>attributes in different tools. Since this is XML, names are case-sensitive.
>And there is even some variability beyond that. The first step should be to
>survey all the existing tools, see what they produce and then collate the
>results. Then, once that's done, it may be possible to have a simple set of

Dave: AmphetaDesk was the first application to take the
mySubscriptions.opml of Radio Userland and adopt it for it's own
channel list. NetNewsWire followed thereafter. I haven't been
near AmphetaDesk for a while, but off the top of my head:

* I hate innerCaps, so I write attributes lowercase. I read both.

* I believe you had "text=" as the title of the RSS feed. I
use "title=", but the code converts "text" to "title".

* Any attributes that AmphetaDesk doesn't explicitly use
are read and written as if I did. Likewise, I provide
an API to get at that "unused" data.

More info, including sample OPML output is here:
http://disobey.com/amphetadesk/pod_amphetadesk_mychannels.html

I believe I've added two or three attributes not part
of the original mySubscriptions.opml files I've seen:

* filename: internal use for AmphetaDesk.
* date_downloaded and _added. self explanatatory.
* email: the nearest approximation to the
channel's email address, if any.


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