[drupal-docs] opml vs weboutliner?

[Boris Mann]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:00:13 -0500, Morbus Iff <morbus at disobey.com> wrote:
> > One was the OPML module and another was this weboutliner thing done by
> > Marc Canter.  The web outliner demo was very cool, but can this be
> > integrated into Drupal with permissions?  I have no idea what an OPML
> 
> For what it's worth, I'm vehemently against OPML as a doc format.

I got that comment from you earlier, Morbus :P

I'm also against it as a doc format. But I'm for it as a format that:
* allows offline mass-editing of hierarchically organized text/HTML
based chunks of content (where mass-editing also means re-ordering of
hierarchies)
* could easily sync back to the Drupal mothership
* has existing, easy to use, cross-platform tools for editing

I'd use MS Word and it's outline feature if I could. I just
immediately thought of OmniOutliner and other such tools, with OPML
just being a sort of secondary interchange format underneath.

Other than not liking OPML itself/perhaps some of the people connected
with it, can someone think of a format/tool that could meet these
requirements?

Anisa: weboutliner actually uses OPML underneath. I would be more than
happy with similar functionality built directly into book
module....it's just hard, and adding features to aid in documentation
just isn't sexy (i.e. we are unlikely to get developer resources for
free).

BTW, I think we need a new monthly/weekly feature of the month. So
far, Anisa gets my vote for Documentation Promoter of the Year.

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Boris Mann
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