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Hey, Dave, I have to agree that Lisa Williams is doing a fantastic job...but h2otown.info is actually a Bryght-hosted Drupal site. Lisa's Wordpress blog is here.

I said a few things about Drupal supporting OPML a while back. No editing support yet: I know I'm still trying to wrap my mind around what the best way to do this is. I've tried the OPML Editor, but it's too stuck in Mac OS System 7 for me to use...too many different "funky" bits, no proper integration into OS X, etc. That, and I hate the lack of support for permalinks that are full URLs. But anyway, less complaining unless I'm actually going to do something about fixing it -- this is open source, after all.

So, I think the best fit between OPML and Drupal is the book module -- which consists of arbitrary content types (e.g. blog posts, images, events, etc.) organized in a hierarchical outline. You can have multiple "root" pages, each of which would map to one OPML document, I think. Djun Kim is already tinkering with general XML import/export, as well as DocBook export, so OPML would likely fit in there.

For round trip editing/live editing, I think we can just implement some XML-RPC hooks on the Drupal side. But I'm really stuck on the client: I want an OS X native OPML editor...basically, an XML-RPC aware version of Omni Outliner. Dave, is there documentation on the protocol used somewhere? The real time one, I mean.

New Vancouver resident and Australian Daniel Venkitachalam (dan.v AT ieee.org) discusses Focus, his Windows outliner built on .NET, the state of outliners, the OPML Editor and more. Check it out (3.4 MB MP3 file, 7 minutes 30 seconds, recorded September 28, 2005, RSS Feed for this podcast)

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