Why aren’t Bloglines or Newsgator OPML Editor compatible?

November 27, 2005 By

I kept trying to open my OPML file in the OPML Editor and it wouldn’t open. I had a few complaints about that as well. I tried both the OPML file that NewsGator exported as well as the one that Bloglines exported. Newsgator’s OPML file wouldn’t even open (gave me an error) but Bloglines opened with blank titles.

So, I did some cleaning and uploaded an OPML-compatible OPML file.

I wish everyone would make their files compatible with the OPML editor, though. I’m using that a lot lately.

UPDATE: I can’t upload this as an OPML file cause Radio Userland keeps converting it to HTML when it uploads and WordPress.com doesn’t support file uploads yet. If someone could put that on a server somewhere that’d be most helpful. The ZIP file linked from here contains the OPML file.

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  • http://donovanwatts.com/ donovan

    Robert, drop your outline in a folder inside the Radio UserLand www folder instead of at the top level. Inside that sub-folder, create a #prefs.txt file with this line: #flRender false.

    Then your outline should not render and you can upload your outline as it was meant to be to the world.

  • http://donovanwatts.com/ donovan

    Robert, drop your outline in a folder inside the Radio UserLand www folder instead of at the top level. Inside that sub-folder, create a #prefs.txt file with this line: #flRender false.

    Then your outline should not render and you can upload your outline as it was meant to be to the world.

  • http://donovanwatts.com/ donovan

    Robert, drop your outline in a folder inside the Radio UserLand www folder instead of at the top level. Inside that sub-folder, create a #prefs.txt file with this line: #flRender false.

    Then your outline should not render and you can upload your outline as it was meant to be to the world.

  • http://donovanwatts.com/ donovan

    Robert, drop your outline in a folder inside the Radio UserLand www folder instead of at the top level. Inside that sub-folder, create a #prefs.txt file with this line: #flRender false.

    Then your outline should not render and you can upload your outline as it was meant to be to the world.

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  • http://www.dahowlett.com dahowlett

    Can someone please explain what the heck OPML is meant to give me? I’m quite prepared to be called clueless, but isn’t this a crude online outliner? I’ve yet to see a convincing argument as to why I should be interested yet Robert punts it at readers pretty regularly. Doesn’t Furl offer something similar only more elegant?

  • http://www.dahowlett.com dahowlett

    Can someone please explain what the heck OPML is meant to give me? I’m quite prepared to be called clueless, but isn’t this a crude online outliner? I’ve yet to see a convincing argument as to why I should be interested yet Robert punts it at readers pretty regularly. Doesn’t Furl offer something similar only more elegant?

  • http://www.dahowlett.com dahowlett

    Can someone please explain what the heck OPML is meant to give me? I’m quite prepared to be called clueless, but isn’t this a crude online outliner? I’ve yet to see a convincing argument as to why I should be interested yet Robert punts it at readers pretty regularly. Doesn’t Furl offer something similar only more elegant?

  • http://www.dahowlett.com dahowlett

    Can someone please explain what the heck OPML is meant to give me? I’m quite prepared to be called clueless, but isn’t this a crude online outliner? I’ve yet to see a convincing argument as to why I should be interested yet Robert punts it at readers pretty regularly. Doesn’t Furl offer something similar only more elegant?

  • http://www.accmanpro.com Dennis Howlett

    Can someone please explain what the heck OPML is meant to give me? I’m quite prepared to be called clueless, but isn’t this a crude online outliner? I’ve yet to see a convincing argument as to why I should be interested yet Robert punts it at readers pretty regularly. Doesn’t Furl offer something similar only more elegant?

  • http://www.faisal.com/ Faisal N. Jawdat

    http://www.faisal.com/tmp/scoble_for_opml_editor.opml

    Of course, mailing this link to you caused Microsoft’s mail server to bounce it back to me. “Reasons for rejection may be: obscene language, graphics, or spam-like characteristics. Removing these may let the e-mail through the filter.” Yay, team!

  • http://www.faisal.com/ Faisal N. Jawdat

    http://www.faisal.com/tmp/scoble_for_opml_editor.opml

    Of course, mailing this link to you caused Microsoft’s mail server to bounce it back to me. “Reasons for rejection may be: obscene language, graphics, or spam-like characteristics. Removing these may let the e-mail through the filter.” Yay, team!

  • http://www.faisal.com/ Faisal N. Jawdat

    http://www.faisal.com/tmp/scoble_for_opml_editor.opml

    Of course, mailing this link to you caused Microsoft’s mail server to bounce it back to me. “Reasons for rejection may be: obscene language, graphics, or spam-like characteristics. Removing these may let the e-mail through the filter.” Yay, team!

  • http://www.faisal.com/ Faisal N. Jawdat

    http://www.faisal.com/tmp/scoble_for_opml_editor.opml

    Of course, mailing this link to you caused Microsoft’s mail server to bounce it back to me. “Reasons for rejection may be: obscene language, graphics, or spam-like characteristics. Removing these may let the e-mail through the filter.” Yay, team!

  • http://www.faisal.com/ Faisal N. Jawdat

    http://www.faisal.com/tmp/scoble_for_opml_editor.opml

    Of course, mailing this link to you caused Microsoft’s mail server to bounce it back to me. “Reasons for rejection may be: obscene language, graphics, or spam-like characteristics. Removing these may let the e-mail through the filter.” Yay, team!

  • http://www.faisal.com/ Faisal N. Jawdat

    http://www.faisal.com/tmp/scoble_for_opml_editor.opml

    Of course, mailing this link to you caused Microsoft’s mail server to bounce it back to me. “Reasons for rejection may be: obscene language, graphics, or spam-like characteristics. Removing these may let the e-mail through the filter.” Yay, team!

  • http://www.faisal.com/ Faisal N. Jawdat

    http://www.faisal.com/tmp/scoble_for_opml_editor.opml

    Of course, mailing this link to you caused Microsoft’s mail server to bounce it back to me. “Reasons for rejection may be: obscene language, graphics, or spam-like characteristics. Removing these may let the e-mail through the filter.” Yay, team!

  • http://www.faisal.com/ Faisal N. Jawdat

    http://www.faisal.com/tmp/scoble_for_opml_editor.opml

    Of course, mailing this link to you caused Microsoft’s mail server to bounce it back to me. “Reasons for rejection may be: obscene language, graphics, or spam-like characteristics. Removing these may let the e-mail through the filter.” Yay, team!

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  • http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/ Sam Ruby

    I’ve run both OPML files through the three known OPML validators:

    http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/11/28/OPML-compatibility

  • http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/ Sam Ruby

    I’ve run both OPML files through the three known OPML validators:

    http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/11/28/OPML-compatibility

  • http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/ Sam Ruby

    I’ve run both OPML files through the three known OPML validators:

    http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/11/28/OPML-compatibility

  • http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/ Sam Ruby

    I’ve run both OPML files through the three known OPML validators:

    http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/11/28/OPML-compatibility

  • http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/ Sam Ruby

    I’ve run both OPML files through the three known OPML validators:

    http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/11/28/OPML-compatibility

  • http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/ Sam Ruby

    I’ve run both OPML files through the three known OPML validators:

    http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/11/28/OPML-compatibility

  • http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/ Sam Ruby

    I’ve run both OPML files through the three known OPML validators:

    http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/11/28/OPML-compatibility

  • http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/ Sam Ruby

    I’ve run both OPML files through the three known OPML validators:

    http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/11/28/OPML-compatibility

  • http://rmail.wordpress.com/ rmail

    Robert, the Bloglines export isn’t all that bad. They have one bug, which is the classic title instead of text attribute. I simply search-and-replace “title=” with “text=” and it works pretty much everywhere.

    http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/?guid=20051128071224

  • http://rmail.wordpress.com/ rmail

    Robert, the Bloglines export isn’t all that bad. They have one bug, which is the classic title instead of text attribute. I simply search-and-replace “title=” with “text=” and it works pretty much everywhere.

    http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/?guid=20051128071224

  • http://rmail.wordpress.com/ rmail

    Robert, the Bloglines export isn’t all that bad. They have one bug, which is the classic title instead of text attribute. I simply search-and-replace “title=” with “text=” and it works pretty much everywhere.

    http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/?guid=20051128071224

  • http://rmail.wordpress.com/ rmail

    Robert, the Bloglines export isn’t all that bad. They have one bug, which is the classic title instead of text attribute. I simply search-and-replace “title=” with “text=” and it works pretty much everywhere.

    http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/?guid=20051128071224

  • http://rmail.wordpress.com/ rmail

    Robert, the Bloglines export isn’t all that bad. They have one bug, which is the classic title instead of text attribute. I simply search-and-replace “title=” with “text=” and it works pretty much everywhere.

    http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/?guid=20051128071224

  • http://rmail.wordpress.com/ rmail

    Robert, the Bloglines export isn’t all that bad. They have one bug, which is the classic title instead of text attribute. I simply search-and-replace “title=” with “text=” and it works pretty much everywhere.

    http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/?guid=20051128071224

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