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Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:05:54 GMT
What's Wrong with OPML

The Fishbowl: To allow the format to be flexible and extensible, OPML producers can add arbitrary attributes to outline elements. While types and attributes are arbitrary, the specification does not provide implementors a mechanism for finding out the meaning of either.

http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2005/10/02/whats_wrong_with_opml

Randy: Definately a major failing of OPML. Further, it's amazing to me that these authors continue to miss pointing out that there is no specification for the current version of OPML (1.1) and continue to point to the old spec.

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Mon, 03 Oct 2005 17:23:48 GMT
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Well, in the absence of a spec to point to, I guess everyone will have to keep passing their implementations through the "human validator."

d.w.

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 17:42:18 GMT
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Hey, there's a non-human OPML validator.

Randy

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:11:52 GMT
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But the human validator makes funny noises when you criticize the spec, which is something the automated one can't do. ;)

d.w.

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:22:42 GMT
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Sounds like a feature request. Embed sounds ;-) 

Randy
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