Maybe I'm thick, but it bewilders me that someone wouldn't simply use RSS or Atom directly, instead of abusing OPML to mis-represent it (which is itself just as terribly designed as RSS, by the same person, Dave Winer -- don't even get me started).
Is this some kind of a masochistic corrupted data ingestion challenge from TikTok that I'm not aware of, akin to eating Tide Pods or washing your clothes in Campbell's Soup?
Does anyone even ever use OPML for outlines any more? Or is it like YAML's backflip, where its original name meant "Yet Another Markup Language" until somebody pointed out to their great surprise that it WASN'T actually a markup language, so they retroactively recursively renamed it "YAML Ain't Markup Language" on opposite day?
So does OPML no longer stand for "Outline Processor Markup Language" any more, but now stands for something else like "OPML Presents Mere Lists"?
What's wrong with exporting and importing RSS as RSS? Has its meaning also changed, flipping places with OPML, so it now means "RSS Serves Structures", so you use RSS for nested trees and OPML for flat lists now?
I suppose you could recursively encode outlines as nested RSS feeds inside the text content other RSS feeds as <
According to this thread, four out of five RSS apps on Linux Mint failed to import the OPML file, and the one that did was buggy:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36627431
Maybe I'm thick, but it bewilders me that someone wouldn't simply use RSS or Atom directly, instead of abusing OPML to mis-represent it (which is itself just as terribly designed as RSS, by the same person, Dave Winer -- don't even get me started).
Is this some kind of a masochistic corrupted data ingestion challenge from TikTok that I'm not aware of, akin to eating Tide Pods or washing your clothes in Campbell's Soup?
Does anyone even ever use OPML for outlines any more? Or is it like YAML's backflip, where its original name meant "Yet Another Markup Language" until somebody pointed out to their great surprise that it WASN'T actually a markup language, so they retroactively recursively renamed it "YAML Ain't Markup Language" on opposite day?
So does OPML no longer stand for "Outline Processor Markup Language" any more, but now stands for something else like "OPML Presents Mere Lists"?
What's wrong with exporting and importing RSS as RSS? Has its meaning also changed, flipping places with OPML, so it now means "RSS Serves Structures", so you use RSS for nested trees and OPML for flat lists now?
I suppose you could recursively encode outlines as nested RSS feeds inside the text content other RSS feeds as <![CDATA[ at each level, or since those can't be nested, exponentially doubling the number of escaped entities at each level.
I Wanna Be <![CDATA[ -- Sung to the tune of “I Wanna Be Sedated”, with apologies to The Ramones:
https://donhopkins.medium.com/i-wanna-be-cdata-3406e14d4f21