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I 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.
by jillesvangurp 3y ago
I 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).