[drupal-docs] OPML for documentation import/export

[Boris Mann]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 20:10:28 -0800, Kieran Lal <kieran at civicspacelabs.org> wrote:
> Big +1.
> 
> But  you might want to explain what OPML is ;-)

It's "Outline Processor Markup Language" -- see http://www.opml.org
and http://www.opml.org/spec.

Very basically, it's a format for handling outlines, which just happen
to be analagous to how book hierarchies work. It's already "in" Drupal
on the aggregator sources page, which exports an OPML file of all feed
sources.

To respond to Charlie:

Please add your notes directly to the wiki. I'm not sure exactly how
we would handle links. I suspect we would need support for path
aliases, since we couldn't rely on node ids. Your other stuff is
guidelines for writing documentation...I'm just focusing my
technologist skills on building a better mousetrap for import/export
of documentation at this point.

ENT is great, and it would be fantastic if Drupal supported it (it's a
bit like an open distributed version of Technorati tags). I don't
think it applies in this case necessarily.

Sheldon (I think?) over on CS has a taxonomy_xml module that is almost
complete, and probably simpler for Drupal-to-Drupal. Documentation
doesn't usually taxo terms, so it's likely an "advanced" feature for
future representation.

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Boris Mann
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