Right now, I can copy nodes from an outline in
Radio UserLand or Frontier, and paste them into JOE, or
a text editor. RU and Frontier send text info, with tabs
indicating node level dives, to the system
clipboard. RU and Frontier also correctly interpret text info
coming in from the system clipboard on a paste operation,
tabs indicating node level dives.

JOE currently does the same thing. I imagine
that other OPML and outlining tools do also,
though I haven't run a thorough set of tests.

All that means that I can copy nodes from RU/Frontier
to JOE, and vice versa. However, <outline> attributes
do not come through.

What I think would be muy coolio is if <outline>
attributes did come through.

I think the straightforward
way to do that is to send a second
data format to the system clipboard: OPML.
It would contain the OPML of the copied
nodes.

Apps could then choose, when pasting from the
system clipboard, to grab the OPML data rather
than the text data, thus preserving <element>
attribute info.

Deeper better interop tween OPML tools is good
for the standard and good for the users. I think
sending/receiving OPML via the System Clipboard
would serve that.

Thoughts ??

stan