[drupal-docs] opml vs weboutliner?

[Morbus Iff]

> OK.  So we drop that.

Well, I wouldn't drop it /that/ quickly <g>. If I'm the only one who's 
against it, then I should be heartily ignored or forced to defend.

> 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
> * could easily sync back to the Drupal mothership
> * has existing, easy to use, cross-platform tools for editing

Alright, fair enough. Are we looking for patch-like control at all?

> 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.

There's also outliner.sf.net, which runs on Windows (I've not tested it 
there) and Linux (runs great on Fedore Core 3). It may not make it past 
the "JAVA IS EVIL!" folks though.

> 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

Define "sync back to the Drupal mothership". At this point, I'm not 
seeing any reason to use OPML (or any sort of XML) as opposed to just 
using a regular old text editor and regular old text. How would the 
syncing work in OPML? How would the core docs understand which section 
of the new data is which? We'd have to use IDs of some sort, of none of 
the OPML editors mentioned allow control over that.

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