difference between "title" and "text"

[c.b...@posteo.jp]

I plan to write my own Newsread for Newsfeeds (RSS/Atom).
In that context I am in touch with OPML.

I want to know what the difference is between the attributes title and
text. All OPML-file I saw have them but the values are always the same.
So I can not see why I need both of them.

[Ted Howard]

I don't think you need both. From the spec, text is a required attribute of outline elements.
http://dev.opml.org/spec2.html#textAttribute

For subscription lists (what you're doing with an RSS reader), title is optional and is derived from the title of the RSS feed.
http://dev.opml.org/spec2.html#subscriptionLists

[Dave Winer]

This is covered in the OPML 2.0 spec.

http://dev.opml.org/spec2.html

Dave

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[Ted Howard]

On 22 Jan 2017, at 22:45, c.b...@posteo.jp wrote:

I don't think you need both. From the spec, text is a required attribute of outline elements.
http://dev.opml.org/spec2.html#textAttribute

[c.b...@posteo.jp]

On 2017-01-23 00:23 Dave Winer <da...@smallpicture.com> wrote:
> This is covered in the OPML 2.0 spec.
> http://dev.opml.org/spec2.html

I cite

"Optional attributes: ..., title, ..."
...
"title is probably the same as text, it should not be omitted."

Maybe my english is to bad. But isn't this a contradiction? "title"
should not be "ommited"(!!) but it is "optional"?

And I ask again: If title and text have the same values ("title is
probably the same as text") why is "title" there? In which situations
wouldn't they have the same values?

[Dave Winer]

If you have any further questions about how to use OPML, ask them and hopefully we can help.

This is a support list, not a place to explain or debate why things are they way they are.

Dave

[c.b...@posteo.jp]

On 2017-01-24 12:35 Dave Winer <da...@smallpicture.com> wrote:
> If you have any further questions about how to use OPML, ask them and
> hopefully we can help.

"them" and "we"? You confuse me.

This is the "opml-dev" list. So who do you mean with "them" and how can
I ask them? I thought this list was the place for it.

[Dave Winer]

If you have more questions then ask those questions here.