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 <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:48 AM, James Holderness <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Peter Keane wrote: > >> > >> 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 > > > > > >
