Re: OPML Tabular Data exchange

[Joris van Lier]

Looking at the new domain attribute used in http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1006496/worldOutline/defaultRootOutline.opml

and re-reading the OPML 2.0 spec http://www.opml.org/spec2

 

5. Processors should ignore any attributes they do not understand

6. There are no documented limits to the number of attributes an <outline> element can have, or the number of <outline> elements it can contain or the size of any attribute.

 

I now believe that note 5 and 6 may be interpreted as “You can make up additional attributes” and as per note 4

“Additional attributes are not supposed to contain encoded html unless specified in the spec”

 

Is this right?

 

 

 

[Joris van Lier]

I’m trying to express arbitrary database query results in OPML,
OPML only has a few attributes to put data into,
but tables contain may more fields, therefore I have to somehow
group these thing hierarchically.

-- -A- -B- -C-
1 A1 B1 C1
2 A2 B2 C2

into

1

-A1
--A
---A1
--B
---B1
--C
---C1
2

-A2
--A

---A2

--B

---B2

In OPML editor I found a "Table kind" but what it does and how it works is a
mystery to me

I’m converting

http://feedfunnel.noagendareport.com/xml/feeds_by_max_pubdate.xml

using

http://feedfunnel.noagendareport.com/xsl/mysql2opml.xsl

into

http://feedfunnel.noagendareport.com/xml/feeds_by_max_pubdate.opml

 

Is there a preferred or recommended way of representing tabular data in OPML?

JvL