* Andrew da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-10-07 05:25]: > Would you recommend using Atom to export other things than > entries, comments or logs?
Depends on how far you want to go. I see no reason to do it; neither do I see any reason not to. The only good argument in favour that I can think of is that you could export the entire weblog to a single file, but then you also have images and other binary files, and then it makes more sense to export as a zip file, at which point you can just as well put the configuration in a separate file of its own within the zip archive. > Here's an example of a table structure we use: > > name - string > type - integer > value - string > > The goal is to be able to fully export a blog either to > migrate, upgrade or backup... If I were to keep the settings inside Atom, I’d probably make a special Entry to contain the configuration, and would use XOXO as the basis for the format of its content. I think. I dunno, tho. You could also have the configuration in an extension element that’s part of the feed metadata. That would make sure that trying to import the feed into a *different* weblogging system won’t create a spurious posting with computer gibberish in it. Then again maybe you *want* it to be inspectable. There are a million ways to approach this, and each of them is better at different things. It really depends on your goals. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
