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How To: Point your domain (example.com) or point your subdomain (directory.example.com) to the OPML community server per the “How to” link, wait for the DNS to propagate. Check.

In the OPML Editor, open your Directory outline opml file by selecting Community > Instant Outliner > Open My Outline. Select Community > Map A Domain. You should see your Outline URL is filled in (note: you can supply any valid url path to an outline). Enter your domain name that you pointed to the OPML server, as above. Select the OK button. Check.
This fails with:
“The server returned error code 4: Can’t map an outline to the domain because the domain doesn’t point to the server.”

But the domain does point to the server. Running trace route resolves to the correct opml server IP, and when I access my sub-domain url that is pointing to that opml server in a browser, it returns:

‘Sorry! There was an error: The attribute “allowDirectoryListings” must be true.’ ??

Testbed: OPML Editor on Win98. I have tried this at different times over the past few weeks with the same result. Does anyone have this feature working with the OPML Editor in a Windows env? I do see some working directories out there, but I cannot get this to fly.

I see an another opml blog, Per Diem is getting the same error when attempting to Map a Domain recently.

I posted earlier today about Tom’s progress on OPML Editor blog rendering via PHP. Then I remembered issues I had running Dan’s Optimal Renderer. Then I re-read “it’s based on PHP5’s DOM and XSLT support” from Tom’s Progress on Blog 2.0 post. Dan has a PHP test script to determine support on your server. Waaaaahhhhh!. Although my web host provider has a selectable option for PHP4 or PHP5, my sad server returns “You DO NOT have XSLT support”. Beyond disappointed. I am writing to my Congressman, better yet, I am writing to my web host.

Update: My web host replied, “At the moment, we do not offer the XSL extension. It has been added to our list of client requested features and may be included in a future service upgrade.” Sigh.

A decade of Scripting News. On this day, ten years ago, a weblog named Scripting News appeared for the first time … today (April 1st) its in “retro mode”

I have been reading Scripting News and strolling through DaveNet since 2004. Thanks Dave! Even though you have intimated otherwise, I look forward to the next 10 year celebration. And a personal thanks for the OPML Editor, Uncle Skippy, from a happy member of the peanut gallery.

Best Wishes,
Peggy

Since Scripting News is in “retro mode” today, Dave is blogging on twitter for the day.

Hey Tom (Mr. OPML Editor hacky-god), this is very cool, you even covered stuff on my wish-list. Well, I think I luv-ya, virtually. I see you have the Next/Prev, Month, Calendar working for the OPML blog. And even ” on this day in”. Can’t wait for the PHP source … waiting, tapping fingers, waiting, waiting … um, no rush … but hurry up ;)

Update: Not waiting, No XSLT support on my web host. Sigh.

Added a test OPML outline to Tom Morris’s new web site OpiumField. Graze on. Hee!

grep |more of what I can do with OPML.

I installed and tested the OPML Reader extension for Firefox (supported in Firefox 1.x and 2.x).

With this add-on you can open a feed reader for any OPML auto-discovery enabled page with the option to view it with Optimal OPML Browser or Grazr. You can also download the OPML file.

After installing the extension restart Firefox. A small OPML icon is placed in the lower right corner of the browser. The icon is gray if no OPML file is found, blue if it discovers an enabled OPML file at the site you are browsing. Simply double-click on the blue icon to read OPML files in the Firefox browser. Very cool.

I enabled my site OPML outline file with the addition of the following auto-discovery tag to my header template:

<link rel=”outline” type=”text/xml+opml” title=”my OPML fileTitle” href=”http://mySite.com/myFile.opml” />

OPML, RSS, Grazr, Optimal Browser, Firefox sweetness!

The OPML Editor with a built-in weblog, NewsRiver, portableRivers, and the Wordpress tool is my kind of application. It feels very comfortable.

I experimented with the OPML Editor for 6 months this year and really like it, but (there’s always a but) I do have a wish or two.

I wish I could render post archives and outlines as static html on my local desktop for subsequent upload to my own web host. Oh, and I want to have html archive links and Next/Prev like Scripting News. I downloaded the Frontier open source and played a bit, but didn’t get very far.

Give them an inch and they want a yard. Give them an awesome open source application and still they ask for more. Yes, please!

Parsing an OPML Document Recursively with Ruby via the
dekstop: weblog site.

The OPML Editor NewsRiver was updated with a portableRiver output feature which is readable on a mobile device like a Blackberry, Treo or web-enabled cell phone.

Currently ZapTXT supports building OPML from RSS feeds that other ZapTXT users have added and tagged. Support for external OPML will be added soon.

Why would I want to use OPML with ZapTXT?
If you want to monitor and filter several RSS feeds with the same keywords, you can define your search criteria for a single OPML and all feeds in the file will “inherit” the search criteria. If ZapTXT didn’t support OPML, you would have to define search criteria for each feed individuallly.

ZapTXT is in Beta.

Phil Sim says OPML won’t catch on.

Updated March-28-2008

What is OPML?, via Wikipedia.

Using OPML 101, a screencast introduction to OPML.

Getting Acquainted with OPML, e-book with 14 wide-ranging uses for the OPML format.

OPML Draft Spec, the OPML draft specification.

OPML Editor, download free for Win or Mac.

OPML Editor Support start page.

OPML Editor FlickrRivr, Flickr River tool for the OPML Editor.

OPML Editor To Twitter, post to your Twitter account via OPML Editor.

OPML Editor newsRiver, tool for the OPML Editor.

What Can I do with OPML? What you can do with the OPML Editor.

Wordpress Tool for the OPML Editor.

Instant Outliner, OPML Editor Instant Outliner tips for success.

Portable Rivers for the OPML Editor.

Unofficial OPML Documentation, what is OPML and the OPML Editor?

Changes.opml.org, recently updated OPML Editor blogs.

JOE, Java Outline Editor.

OPML Search, search within thousands of OPML files.

Opml Manager, an online webservice for maintaining your own opml-file.

Optimal Browser renders valid OPML from any source in a tree-like view ideal for browsing.

Optimal OPML Wordpress Plugin, a plugin for your WordPress blog.

Grazr, an RSS Reader/OPML Browser application.

OPod, an AJAX OPML and RSS viewer.

OPML Reader extension for Firefox.

Changes.opiumfield.com, a site where you can add your OPML outline. Rendered in Grazr.

OPML Icon Project, OPML needs an identity?