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I seem to recall that OPML wasn’t as interoperable as it should have been and there was no guarantee an OPML file from one app could be used in another app. Has
by JimDabell 3y ago
I seem to recall that OPML wasn’t as interoperable as it should have been and there was no guarantee an OPML file from one app could be used in another app. Has this improved?
- jillesvangurp 3y agoI don't recall having issues with that on the handful of occasions I used it. It's not a particular hard format to parse. Basically it's just a list of stuff. Boggles the mind that you would use a different format for exporting a list of a urls that point to lists of stuff than for those actual lists of stuff. Either way, parsing a list of stuff is not rocket science. But you could just use RSS or Atom for this.
- 082349872349872 3y ago> Boggles the mind that you would use a different format My understanding is that Winer's main interest has always been outliners, and RSS etc. were just fortunate side excursions, so I find it about as boggling as the phenomenon that people with hammers are likely to be pushing Open Nail Markup Languages.
- slow_typist 3y agoBut semantics… RSS is flat and items are usually ordered by pubdate. OPML is better suited for relatively static collections of things organised in a tree. Using OPML to store blogrolls makes sense (but is not the only viable option of course).