(2002-04-15) f

Mark Pilgrim dissects OPML. So as far as I can tell, OPML is XML that isn't really XML, has (but doesn't use) a DTD that isn't really a DTD, and can only be properly defined as "whatever Userland's tools happen to accept at the moment". That puts a bit of a damper on my interest in Wiki And Outlining. Will have to watch for substantive responses.

• actually, maybe this isn't a big issue for me right now. My primary interest is in using an outliner to edit Wiki pages in Structured Text. So OPML is just a temporary format. If it's decent enough that I can write some Zope code to convert it into Structured Text, then it meets my needs for the moment...

• Aaron Cope is working on a DTD for OTLML.