Dave has made
a cryptic reference to a new Mac outlining app that interops with Drummer, but does not link to the app. I think the app being referenced is called
Bike, I saw a reference to it via MacStories.
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Decided to do some testing between Bike, Electric Drummer, and Drummer. You can read
my testing notes.
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One thing I can confirm is that Bike does not retain any of the header variables that Electric Drummer adds to the OPML. It reads the body of the OPML file and when it saves it writes back out a new file in its entirety with only a meta tag in the head. I also note that the outline entries have their IDs in a different location than where they are placed via Electric Drummer. I am assuming that Bike is ignoring the header variables in the file and writing the OPML out in a vanilla format. It looks like Electric Drummer, and I assume the same is true for Drummer, has a slightly different OPML format that includes headers understandable to it. Consequently, there is not clean Interop between Bike and Drummer. Is this really
the app Dave was referring to?
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I think that by default Bike should read the OPML header entries that exist in the OPML file, retain them, and write them back out on the file same to preserve roundtripping/interop of the file between itself and other programs that can edit OPML files. I don't know the OPML spec to know whether there is a rule for how to treat header variables.
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