OPML is an outlining language, not just a feed list
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everybody thinks that OPML is just for importing and exporting RSS feeds. And that's not at all.
Episode 97: Forever Fifteen (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:21:25 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Everyone thinks OPML is just for importing and exporting RSS subscriptions, and Dave says that misunderstanding is what killed it. It's a full outlining markup language: a node can reference another OPML file, whose outline gets pulled in as children when you expand it. Dave and Adam used shared outlines like this to communicate for about five years.
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Episode 97: Forever Fifteen (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:21:38 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
OPML is a full outlining markup language. And one of the one of the attributes on each node is to include the URL of another OPML file,
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Episode 97: Forever Fifteen (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:22:43 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
and all the latest stuff he wrote in his outline would come into my outline. And that's how we That's how literally how we communicated for like five years
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