[uf-discuss] XOXO-2-OPML LazyWeb Request

[Brian Suda]

excellent! looking at the code, we pretty much arrived at the same
thing - what license do you plan on releasing this as? and when you
finish you should add it to the Implementations list on the Wiki.

what i'd really like is to find out, via Lazy Web, what and if any,
New Readers can accept XOXO straight and/or which properly import the
XOXO2OPML.xsl output.

I also had a look at the NING implimentation and they mostly do the
same thing, except it is a flat OPML, no nested <outline> and they
don't manage to create Absolute URLs from any @href, but they do take
input/output to various formats. Does anyone know who wrote that and
under what license it is? and we "look under the hood" and see/improve
what it is doing?

thanks, Anyone else know of any links/services?
-brian


On 9/25/06, Dietrich Ayala <autonome at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wrote this a few months ago, but haven't had time to look at since. YMMV :)
>
> http://dietrich.ganx4.com/microformats/xoxo2opml.xsl
>
> On 9/25/06, Brian Suda <brian.suda at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As most folks have some sort of Blogroll (hopefully marked-up with XFN
> > and XOXO[1]). I have begun to look into easily converting those into
> > OPML. I've only worked with OPML for a day now and it has left a sour
> > taste in my mouth!!! So i never want to write OPML again, instead i
> > want to write happy XOXO and build (if needed) OPML from that.
> >
> > I went and started in on an XSLT and web service[3] to convert any
> > HTML page with XOXO into OPML. It isn't perfect, and makes use of the
> > "Special Properties" section[2] of the XOXO spec - so if you find
> > issues/errors/problems/ideas let me know.
> >
> > I have tested it on my own site*, but now i envoke the Power of Lazy Web!
> >
> > I am looking for Folks to do two things:
> > 1) run their XOXO files through the web sevice and see if they get the
> > expected OPML back
> > 1a) which blog platform are you using (if any)
> > 2) document which NewsReaders/OS correctly consume the OPML.
> > 2a) does the RSS reader do 'auto-discovery'? meaning if i send it a
> > link to the blog homepage, does it extract the RSS correctly from the
> > HTML link?
> >
> > I have started a wiki page with a simple structure to let others add
> > their information too[4].
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -brian
> >
> > [1] - http://microformats.org/wiki/xoxo
> > [2] - http://microformats.org/wiki/xoxo#Special_Properties
> > [3] - http://suda.co.uk/projects/microformats/xoxo/
> > [4] - http://microformats.org/wiki/xoxo-opml-issues
> >
> > * - i am aware that not everything in my XOXO list is a feed - some
> > NewsReaders Ignore them, some try to fetch something and just fail.
> >
> > --
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> > http://suda.co.uk
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brian suda
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