[development] Data import and synchronization to nodes

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Ken Rickard <agentrickard at gmail.com>:

> @Earnie: Take a look at the FeedAPI SoC project, it includes pluggable XML
> parsing and node creation hooks.
>
>> *Note* we are aware
>> of all the existing modules and API and our plans are to use the
>> existing things as well as create what is missing.
>>

XML is only one data format.  GDF hopes to provide a means to I/O more 
formats than XML or RSS.  There is a huge commercial need to be able to 
create nodes out of any format of feed.

Earnie