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> 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 fortu
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> 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).