Re: draft-sneddon-atom-export (Was: Exporting a blog using Atom)

[John Panzer <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So people can see what we're talking about easily, I exported a (test) blog and uploaded the xml here:

http://www.johnpanzer.com/blogexport.xml

Unfortunately this one didn't have comments, and only two entries, so most of the data is taken up with settings.  If you view it in a feed reader, you get something that looks a bit like key-value pairs (where each entry is a key with a description and the content is the value).  There are various drawbacks to the format, I'm not proposing it as a defined standard, but we needed something to allow for export and import and it's an (IMHO) reasonable starting point.

Looking at it in a reader, it's pretty clear that critical information isn't being picked up by the generic reader, but it degrades fairly gracefully I think.

John

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Peter Keane <pkeane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:48 AM, James Holderness <j4_james@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Peter Keane wrote:
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>> I actually hardly ever think of the case of feed readers when I think
>> about Atom, oddly enough.
>
> Yeah, I can see that. I really would encourage you to spend a little time
> using a few of these feed readers and exploring their capabilities before
> you start proposing "best practices" that would cripple their functionality.
>

Just checked my feeds in NetNewsWire, Liferea, and Google Reader & all
worked beautifully (I generally just use Firefox & check them in
FeedValidator).  Maybe we have different definitions of crippled?

--peter

> Regards
> James
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