Comments on: How to Get An OPML Reading List Out of Someone’s Blog http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/01/how-to-get-an-opml-reading-list-out-of-someones-blog a blog about the connected age Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:07:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Anne Zelenka http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/01/how-to-get-an-opml-reading-list-out-of-someones-blog#comment-75 Anne Zelenka Sat, 21 Jan 2006 05:19:27 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/01/how-to-get-an-opml-reading-list-out-of-someones-blog#comment-75 Hi Alex, thanks for the info... very helpful. I'm pretty intrigued by OPML and have gotten the OPML Editor running on my machine but I'm spending too much time blogging to actually do anything with it. I think what I read on Wikipedia was that DTDs don't support namespaces, which seems completely wrong based on what you've said. You seem to be saying DTDs define namespaces which is what I was thinking before I read the Wikipedia XML entry. So I need to check that out as well as the links you gave. Hi Alex, thanks for the info… very helpful. I’m pretty intrigued by OPML and have gotten the OPML Editor running on my machine but I’m spending too much time blogging to actually do anything with it.

I think what I read on Wikipedia was that DTDs don’t support namespaces, which seems completely wrong based on what you’ve said. You seem to be saying DTDs define namespaces which is what I was thinking before I read the Wikipedia XML entry. So I need to check that out as well as the links you gave.

]]> By: Alex Barnett http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/01/how-to-get-an-opml-reading-list-out-of-someones-blog#comment-74 Alex Barnett Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:42:24 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/01/how-to-get-an-opml-reading-list-out-of-someones-blog#comment-74 Nice post Anne. You asked for feedback, so here it is :-) You wrote: "OPML stands for Outline Processor Markup Language and serves as the most common (or perhaps only?) format for storing and exchanging feed subscription information. " OPML is the only one I know of that does this, but the flip side is that OPML can do more than just act are a list of feeds. They could any url that happens to be static too. Example alt. OPML formated lists could be: wishlist (pointing to pooks on Amazon), or the cars I've owned (search cars AND OPML), or other OPML lists. You get the picture. On the relationship between DTDs and namespaces: think of a namespace as a URI to another doc (the DTD) within your xml file. The DTD contains the 'rules' you want to follow. See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/05/xml and this: http://www.w3schools.com/dtd/default.asp Nice post Anne. You asked for feedback, so here it is :-)
You wrote: “OPML stands for Outline Processor Markup Language and serves as the most common (or perhaps only?) format for storing and exchanging feed subscription information. ”

OPML is the only one I know of that does this, but the flip side is that OPML can do more than just act are a list of feeds. They could any url that happens to be static too. Example alt. OPML formated lists could be: wishlist (pointing to pooks on Amazon), or the cars I’ve owned (search cars AND OPML), or other OPML lists. You get the picture.

On the relationship between DTDs and namespaces: think of a namespace as a URI to another doc (the DTD) within your xml file. The DTD contains the ‘rules’ you want to follow.

See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/05/xml

and this:

http://www.w3schools.com/dtd/default.asp

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