[drupal-docs] OPML for documentation import/export

[Charlie Lowe]

+1 all the way across. great idea.

some suggestions:

1) This is probably obvious, but not on the wiki yet. The opml import 
module should be able to handle self-referential internal book links. 
Otherwise, one of the downfalls to any documentation for export is that 
this has to be a tree-shaped linear hypertext with only one navigational 
structure. For documentation to be more effective for a variety of 
cases, we need to be able to cross link between pages to produce things 
like

- indexes
- having howto's collected in one area of the collabo book and being 
able to link back to say more advanced reference materials that might be 
elsewhere
- in an extensive collection documentation, a getting started guide for 
newbies page which point to where to go first

2) I don't know if this will help--I posted it to drupal.org a long time 
ago (http://drupal.org/node/1655)--but Easy News Topics might be useful 
for handling taxonomies with this:

http://matt.blogs.it/specs/ENT/1.0/


Boris Mann wrote:
> In following up on the conference call, Roland, Richard and I kicked
> around some ideas for easily importing/exporting content between
> sites.
> 
> The instructions for DB dumps need heavy duty technical expertise to
> do right, and it's still not a very good solution.
> 
> So, here's our write up for how this might be accomplished with OPML:
> http://dev.bryght.com/t/wiki/OpmlModule
> 
> I think this would have some real benefits beyond documentation --
> specifically, desktop editing of large chunks of Drupal content.
> 
> The next step would be committing funding and/or development resources
> to get this built.
> 
> Comments? Questions? Stick other ideas in the wiki of course, but
> let's get some +1s/-1s going.
> 
> --
> Boris Mann
> http://www.bryght.com