Re: Feed List Format
Mark Fletcher <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.syndication.discuss |
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Danny Ayers wrote: >I nearly missed this thread, but coincidentally I'd expressed my opinion on >OPML this very morning in another mail, below. But first - > >Re. "Since OPML is already supported by every single aggregator on this >particular planet..." - not for the purpose being specified. The amount of >work needed to tool up for the new job would be the same if you use OPML or >a completely new XML syntax. > > Huh? OPML is used for *exactly* the purpose specified. Passing lists of feed urls around. And supporting a new format would definitely require more work than hooking into an already supported format. If I have a function call that already parses OPML, I don't need to do anything else. >Plain text is definitely supported by every single aggregator, btw - if >we're just talking about a list of URIs, why not use that? What is gained >from using OPML? (see rant below) > > Sure, and all aggregators understand TCP/IP at some level. We could always encode the data in unused IP header fields. ;-) The more work that is required to implement the functionality (both on the consumer and producer sides), the fewer sites and clients will support it. Mark -- Mark Fletcher Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/