Re: [syndication] Re: Announce: Scripting News in OPML

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

OPML is a fine format, it's XML-based, there are several tools for creating
OPML, it's the format behind all the directories we're doing, and if you
want to build hierarchies, it's the best format out there for that. It also
is a good format for writing weblogs and several of us are doing that, and I
suspect more will in the future. The more creative people in this space
would do well, imho, to look at it and consider supporting it. Re defending
my contribution to RSS, well, I did a lot to get it going. Have a nice day
one and all. Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 7:02 AM
Subject: [syndication] Re: Announce: Scripting News in OPML


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> > If it's intended to be a general purpose *syndication* format, then
> this
> > is as good a place as any to discuss and criticise it, as it's
> going to
> > come to the attention of a goodly number of potential implementors.
> Let
> > it stand or fall on it's perceived merits.
>
> <sigh> Yet another format that Dave invents without input from the
> public.  Yet another RSS debacle all over again.  Heaven forbid
> there's any critics of it.  Look at the RSS 0.93 stagnation, it's
> because of critics.  There are a lot of good comments in the group.
>
> My comments about using this OPML format for news are intended as
> valid criticism.  There's little or nothing in the OPML format that
> is listed as support for many newsfeed related fields.  While I'm
> sure it could be made to support it, so too could the RSS-whatever
> formats.
>
> But apparently an open discussion is not what's desired.
>
> -Bill Kearney
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