I can verify that the suite works as Breyten describes at [2]. The main lessons for export.module are:
Use GUIDs. I suggest using the URL for viewing a node (e.g. http://example.com/node/view/12)
Use Comment_URL
In addition, we should encode the taxonomy term name and term ID although I really haven't thought through how to *use* that info. I think we can get a lot of mileage without solving this.
Breyten also claims support for the more advanced feed features. I don't know enough about them to determine whether they are useful to us - "supports some DC items, the SY module, and the content:encoded stuff"
There are a couple small bugs in the modules, and a couple more improvements to the core which are needed to make things even nicer. I think we will have to bite the bullet and make those small edits to the drupal core. Then distribute a customized version of drupal. I'll work on those edits in the next few days.
Here are some handy RSS URLs for testing the import module suite: http://blog.deanforamerica.com/index.xml http://home.yole.ru/weblog/index.xml http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/index.rss http://diveintomark.org/xml/rss.xml http://arstechnica.com/etc/rdf/ars.rdf
[0] http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/contributions/modules/import/?cvsroot=contrib&only_with_tag=DRUPAL-4-2-0
[1] http://dean.sourceforge.net
[2] http://drupal.org/node/view/1111
