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OPML
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Also known as Outline Processor Markup Language, OPML File 2

OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is an XML format for outlines (defined as "a tree, where each node contains a set of named attributes with string values"). Originally developed by UserLand Software as a native file format for the outliner application in its Radio UserLand product, it has since been adopted for other uses, the most common being to exchange lists of web feeds between web feed aggregators.

Key facts

File format.name
OPML
File format.icon
100px
File format.extension
.opml
File format.mime
application/xml, text/xml, text/x-opml
File format.uniform_type
org.opml.opml
File format.conforms_to
public.xml
File format.developer
UserLand
File format.genre
Outliner
File format.extendedfrom
XML

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • XML format
  • Criticism
  • Validation
  • Alternative specifications
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is an XML format for outlines (defined as "a tree, where each node contains a set of named attributes with string values"). Originally developed by UserLand Software as a native file format for the outliner application in its Radio UserLand product, it has since been adopted for other uses, the most common being to exchange lists of web feeds between web feed aggregators.

The OPML specification defines an outline as a hierarchical, ordered list of arbitrary elements. The specification is fairly open which makes it suitable for many types of list data.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “OPML” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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