http://simonwillison.net/2004-03-24T06:54:19+00:00Simon Willison2004-03-24T06:54:19+00:002004-03-24T06:54:19+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2004/Mar/24/xhtmloutlines/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/xhtmloutlines">xhtmloutlines - Technorati Developers Site</a></strong></p> OPML alternative built on top of XHTML. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://randomfoo.net/">random($foo)</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microformats">microformats</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/opml">opml</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/technorati">technorati</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xhtml">xhtml</a></p>

2003-03-06T02:39:05+00:002003-03-06T02:39:05+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2003/Mar/6/pythonPower/#atom-tag

<p>Sam Ruby's <a href="http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1237.html" title="wx3pa">ultra-simple 3-paned aggregator</a> is a great example of the power of high level scripting languages. Using the <a href="http://wxpython.org/">wxPython</a> cross-platform <acronym title="Graphical User Interface">GUI</acronym> toolkit and Mark Pilgrim's <a href="http://diveintomark.org/projects/rss_parser/">ultra-liberal RSS Parser</a> it provides a full application in a mere 107 lines of (highly readable and maintainable) code.</p> <p>Linked to from Sam's comments are <a href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/04/15/investigating_opml.html" title="Investigating OPML">Mark Pilgrim's thoughts on OPML</a> from April last year. I'm not too keen on <acronym title="Outline Processor Markup Language">OPML</acronym>'s "invent attributes as you need them" attitude but I am intrigued by Dave Winer's <a href="http://davenet.userland.com/2002/06/02/theGooglishWayToDoDirectories" title="The Googlish Way To DO Directories">thoughts on using OPML</a> as the basis for a massive, distributed directory of the web - a sort of decentralised <a href="http://dmoz.org/" title="The Open Directory Project">dmoz</a>.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mark-pilgrim">mark-pilgrim</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/opml">opml</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rss">rss</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sam-ruby">sam-ruby</a></p>