Re: Pandoc and OPML

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

2013/3/26 John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>:
> g++ Ryan Gray [Mar 25 13 18:14 ]:
>>    On Sunday, March 17, 2013 11:33:41 PM UTC-6, fiddlosopher wrote:
>>
>>      +++ John MacFarlane [Mar 17 13 21:01 ]:
>>      > I've added an opml branch on github that does the basics.
>>      >
>>      > I still haven't added support for a _note attribute, because
>>      > I'm not sure I understand how it is to be interpreted.
>>      >
>>      > The content of the attribute is a string.  But what format?
>>      > HTML? Markdown? Is there any standard for this?
>>      Multimarkdown just seems to put raw markdown inside the _note
>>      attribute.  But it seems to me that encoded HTML would be a
>>      better choice, since the spec is explicit about allowing that
>>      in the text attribute.
>>      (Of course, it would be converted to markdown in an opml ->
>>      markdown conversion.)
>>
>>    I think the idea for MMD was so that for apps that supported the
>>    attribute, you could edit (or create) the note (which contains the
>>    content of a section) in Markdown format rather than HTML in whatever
>>    app you opened or imported the OPML file in. This seems to be a
>>    sensible thing. Perhaps it would be easy enough to look at the first
>>    characters in the note to tell if it is HTML or plain text.
>
> Well, I ended up just parsing the contents of the note attribute as
> markdown.
>
> OPML is now supported (in the dev version) for both input and output.
> Try it out!

Wikipedia says:

   Exporting your data from an OPML file to another format can't be
   done without coding: no free tools are available to convert an OPML
   file to HTML,

Do we wait until Pandoc with OPML support is on Hackage?