opml NewsOutline Processor Markup LanguageOPML validator & outline elements outside the body- (Found June 29, 2008 ) Nick Bradbury suggested that the validator warn about outline elements outside the body of an OPML document. I gave it some thought, and came up with realistic scenarios (Nick says he's seen it in the field) and yesterday updated the validator to look for outline elements outside the body and flag them. Two test cases: Nick's (with one error) and my own (with two errors).http://www.opml.org/2005/11/06#a173 OPML validator & characters that require encoding- (Found June 29, 2008 ) A new test case for the validator, which now checks to see that & and < are properly encoded per the XML spec. This is another of Nick Bradbury's requests. A current list of all the test cases is here.http://www.opml.org/2005/11/07#a189 Extension mechanisms in OPML- (Found June 29, 2008 ) With all the activity around OPML, the editor, the beta of the validator, and the recent release of the community server, I've been steadily getting inquiries about extension mechanisms for OPML. I think it's now a good time to start discussing this. Basically, I think OPML should have a way to include elements from other namespaces, much as RSS 2.0 does. Developers should, whenever possible, use capabilities that are already in use by others, or included in the core spec, or recommendations..http://www.opml.org/2005/11/17#a198 For discussion: Spam-reduced owner identity in OPML- (Found June 29, 2008 ) First, a few recitals 1. In case it's not obvious, I plan to bring together all these proposals together, after a suitable period of discussion, into a new OPML spec. All the elements and attributes of current versions of OPML will be valid according to the new spec. However, I expect we will introduce new capabilities, elements, and types, along the lines of those being discussed. 2. When OPML was designed, over five years ago, spam wasn't the problem that it is today. It made sense then...http://www.opml.org/2005/11/19#a203 Morning Coffee Notes in OPML- (Found June 29, 2008 ) Earlier today the new Morning Coffee Notes RSS feed was introduced. Along with the feed, there's also an OPML version and an HTML rendering. I edit the OPML version, using an outliner of course, and the other forms, RSS and HTML, are generated from the OPML. One of the reasons this is cool is that my podcast feed can now be included in an OPML directory, as demonstrated by this node in the directory for this site. That node in the directory will update automatically whenever I add a new...http://www.opml.org/2005/02/28#a37 |