Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
Is there any interest in moving over to a fully fledged XML serializer
(which would at the very least mean any XML conformance bug would be in
one place)?
For output that sounds fine.
However I still do plan to get a spec doc up for it one day. If that
were a condition of them [MT] supporting it I’d happily prioritize it.
When I brought this up on wp-hackers in July (2008), I received the
reply (from Otto):
If you want it documented, then look at it and write a document for it.
Either there's a disconnect, or there's a change of plan. Is it still
the case that there is a spec coming?
It's still on the list, but it's a long list. :) Most of my attention
has been focused on 2.7.
of a byte-stream, massively simplifying it), though it would probably be
unlikely to happen until March/April '09 (I would guess it would
probably be around a day's work).
That'd be awesome.
That said, I think having some standardized format would be better, and
something based upon RSS probably isn't a good way to do that (mainly
because RSS is uselessly vague, and WXR would almost certainly have to
be defined as an extension of a subset of that (e.g., Is the title
element text or HTML? Different implementations do different things
here, some performing heuristics to try and determine the answer.), but
also because Atom has far more of what is needed already standarized).
Blogger already has an export format based on Atom. Working with that
probably should be separate from WXR.
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