I put together some PHP code to access and manipulate an OPML document. A working example is at http://www.defconzero.com/phpopml/view.php and free (as in...
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Austin Marshall
pseudogodofp...
Apr 7, 2003 4:28 pm
Should not comments use the attribute type="comment" instead of isComment="true"? to be more consistent with the type="link" way of doing things?...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Apr 7, 2003 4:33 pm
Here's how comments are implemented in UserLand's outliner. http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/userland/scratchpad/comment.opml Dave ... From: Austin Marshall ...
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Dave Seidel
davidseidel
Apr 8, 2003 11:55 am
I don't agree. If an item has isComment="true", that doesn't mean that the item is itself a comment. It means that the item has the comment *attribute*,...
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Austin Marshall
pseudogodofp...
Apr 8, 2003 3:25 pm
I suppose. It makes more sense when you put it that way. From what I understand, the type attribute is open-ended, nowhere in the spec does it say what a...
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rgrieselhuber
Apr 11, 2003 3:00 am
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...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Apr 11, 2003 3:17 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...
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Iain Truskett
hiskoscheiness
Apr 11, 2003 10:03 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...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Apr 11, 2003 10:08 am
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...
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Rogers Cadenhead
rcade
Apr 11, 2003 1:36 pm
... 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,...
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Jeff Mitchell
coogfoo
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...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Apr 11, 2003 2:31 pm
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...
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rgrieselhuber
Apr 11, 2003 4:22 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...
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Austin Marshall
pseudogodofp...
Apr 11, 2003 4:23 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...
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Jeff Mitchell
coogfoo
Apr 11, 2003 7:12 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...
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Rogers Cadenhead
rcade
Apr 11, 2003 7:42 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...
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kate
kates_menagerie
Apr 15, 2003 2:29 am
Very nice. Thanks for posting it. -Kate ... From: pseudogodofpseudoness [mailto:amars@...] Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 12:03 AM To:...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Apr 15, 2003 11:56 am
By directory I mean a Yahoo or DMOZ-like directory -- a hierarchy that is navigated using a Web browser. The hierarchy is specified in OPML. My goal is to get...
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zopepaul2
Apr 15, 2003 6:01 pm
Howdy all. I did a little fooling around today with OPML directory browsing and Mozilla: http://www.zope-europe.org/articles/200304/opmlprototype ...
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Stan Krute
stan_krute
Apr 15, 2003 11:23 pm
Hey Dave This is excellent. I hope to find time to join the barn-raising. Homage and happy diggation ... Stan...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Apr 15, 2003 11:24 pm
How refreshing! I'm soooo tired of people wanting to re-invent the roots. Dave ... From: Stan Krute To: opml-dev@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003...
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Simon Fell
simonfell99
Apr 16, 2003 9:04 am
Looking at the example directory at http://www.opml.org/directory/13 is it using the presence of the .opml in the url to decide to display a folder and to...
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masukomi
kates_menagerie
Apr 16, 2003 9:04 am
I don't think I've seen mention of this question before and it's a hard one to search for (with useful results) so sorry if it's a duplicate. what's the...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Apr 16, 2003 9:12 am
Yes that's what it means. Here's what the spec says. "A headline without sub-heads with a link attribute that ends with .opml is an inclusion. When the user...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Apr 16, 2003 9:12 am
May I be blunt? Assuming so. "It just seems wrong" is not a very strong argument. If you do it differently then theoretically every processor has to work both...
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masukomi
kates_menagerie
Apr 16, 2003 11:28 am
Makes sense. "it just seems wrong" wasn't my only argument but none of the others are particularly strong enough to justify a change. as a note, the others...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Apr 16, 2003 11:35 am
Imho, after many years of working on outliners, my belief is that the text is just one attribute, and often not the most important one. OPML is not like every...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Apr 16, 2003 12:16 pm
Simon Fell [1] did a clone [2] of the OPML Directory Browser [3] in ASP.NET. This makes me happy. ;-> Dave [1]...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Apr 16, 2003 12:52 pm
1. I started a new directory for implementations. http://www.opml.org/directory/19/implementations/opmlDirectoryBrowser If you click around you'll also find a...
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Pete Prodoehl
raster
Apr 16, 2003 2:20 pm
... Might this work? http://example.com/foo.php?bar=fake.opml It's a hack, but technically it is a url ending with '.opml' Pete...
