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

[Stephen Paul Weber]

I don't think my code always does a flat OPML... only if the original
XOXO was flat...  I'll look into processing XOXO that has relative
URLs

On 9/25/06, Brian Suda <brian.suda at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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