opml_to_hdoc

License

Richard Nathan

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Introduction

This project takes in a wider initiative to produce a conversion platform able to convert from and to a variety of document formats, including some of the Scenari formats. This is achieved by the use of a custom pivot format, Hdoc, which allows to easily extends the conversion platform to the cost of some information loss.

Goal

The goal of our project is to produce a conversion component for the Hdoc platform which would be able to convert OPML documents to Hdoc ones.

The OPML format

The Outline Processor Markup Language was first intended as a file format for the software Radio UserLand. Since then, his usage for storing generic hierarchical information increased and it has become a de facto export standard for a variety of outliners software.

More recently, it became widely used for the storage and communication of RSS feeds.

Please see the OPML standard page (http://dev.opml.org/spec2.html) for more information.