Sunday October 24, 2021; 9:03 AM EDT
- I integrated this blog into micro.blog and now can publish in Old School and there. That was quite satisfying as a proof-of-concept for how OPML documents can be used as a universal data type, each publishing system handling the document in its own way. I have more thoughts about this, which will have to wait until another time. But in brief, I also have my own homegrown publishing system, and I would like to teach it OPML. #
- At my company, I have been on a quest to find a way out of unstructured, semantically void document formats Plain text, HTML, and Markdown, as well as any word processor document type. But I do not want to spend my days writing in something like DITA. That space seems way too big and complicated. What I am after is something like an Outliner (hierarchical organization) plus Metadata.#
- In Drummer and OPML, the Metadata are XML attributes placed on the XML element. Presumably, it would be possible to define entire dictionaries of attributes as a way to describe data structures, concepts, and fundamental "truths" and characteristics.#
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- A publishing system would, by associating dictionaries with style sheets and other markup, be able to lay out the OPML.#
- A CMS would be able to import the data and provide relevant functions and editing controls.#
- A machine-learning model would be able to share its knowledge (its universe of mind maps) as OPML documents.#
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- (Does Drummer have special directives for making a list, ordered or unordered? I tried inserting HTML markup, to no effect.)#